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...reading all those other, lesser works from the past 25 years - that's service journalism! I just wish they'd done it American Idol style, with Morrison et al. reading a chapter a week on live television and Michiko Kakutani doling out on-the-spot critiques a la Simon Cowell. (Kakutani: "Roth, that was self-indulgent, semi-literate trash! No wonder you never got that trip to Sweden." Roth: [tries to look brave, then sobs uncontrollably onto David Foster Wallace's shoulder...
...Samuel M. Simon ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears regularly...
...automatic bids to nationals, hosted this year in Charleston, S.C. The Crimson finished with 137 total points, just two ahead of fifth-place Yale.The B-division team of senior skipper Vincent Porter and senior crew Ruth Schlitz paced Harvard, finishing second overall.Captain skipper Clay Johnson and junior crew Emily Simon guided their A-division boat to a tie for seventh place.“At the beginning, Clay and I didn’t start particularly well,” Porter said. “We were definitely a little disappointed about how we sailed.”The poor...
Above all, the beverage firms were happier to have a newspaper photo op with Clinton rather than headlines about their fending off lawsuits. Michele Simon, director of the Center for Informed Food Choices, along with a team of other health groups and lawyers, had been in negotiations with the beverage companies for a similar health-conscious agreement as the threat of litigation loomed. When Clinton came calling, those talks broke off. "Apparently Coke and Pepsi were shopping for the best p.r. opportunity," she sniffs. "It looks much better to have President Clinton at your side than a bunch of lawyers...
...Bolivian President Evo Morales to bring his nation's recently discovered natural gas reserves, South America's second largest, under state control would seem to be a triumph for Chavez and his quest to integrate Latin America under his leftist "Bolivarian Revolution" (named for South America's independence hero, Simon Bolivar). But while Venezuela has the hemisphere's largest oil reserves, Bolivia is still a bit player on the world energy stage. And while Morales' nationalization decree was certainly a strong rebuke to the U.S.-backed capitalist reforms that have swept the region over the past 15 years...