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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ultimately, Kevin is a symbol of being found. Of creating a home for himself and for his family and for other readers and writers in poetry. Of using words to give identities and ideas a place. And then the publishing and the prestige become incidental. "On planes and shit, when people ask me what I do, I say 'I guess I write poems,"" he tells me. "And they say, 'Oh, do you do that on the side?" On the side? What is that ? write poetry, and then I live on the side...

Author: By Kelly A. E. mason, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Poet Who Is Wary of the 'Burden of Representation' | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...passed his courses, passed History and Literature generals, wrote a thesis on Pakistani author Hanif Kureshi (he's totally full of shit, but Thomas can relate to that). So today Harvard's hostess with the mostest will receive his diploma, and the campus social scene will never be the same...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fun Is What It's All About | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...back with red pencil on top thatsaid, "This is shit,'" says Wilson. "That is, youknow, the shortest from of literary criticism...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wilson Reflects On His Novel | 6/2/1992 | See Source »

Later than night, two of the Cornell guys confronted Bruce C. Hilton '94 in the street, asked if he was a Harvard student, and allegedly kicked the shit out of him. They face assault charges. Serious violence, to use Shenk's term, was not averted, but merely diverted...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Private Clubs, Public Violence | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

Later, the author goes on and states:"...the only time foreign investors got really excited about Peru was during the 19th century when 80 percent of the government revenues were derived from the export of guano (which is, well, bird shit)." Guano is a fertilizer obtained in the coastal islands that was used extensively to spur agricultural output, feeding an increasing world population. Does it matter to Peru's current crisis that it exported guano in the 19th century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Trivialize History | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

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