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...them on the national stage (James Frey). The all-powerful Oprah Book Club is not so much a club as a ruthlessly influential marketing vehicle, with the power to fundamentally alter best-seller lists, Amazon rankings and royalty payments. Sure, the "club" has 2 million "members" and a web site that provides a space for users to share thoughts on featured titles, read excerpts and get advice like, "How to Read a Hard Book." But in the 12 years Oprah's Book Club has existed, its significance has been - from the perspective of authors and editors, at least...
After Hurricane Katrina, folklorist Carl Lindahl wondered how he could help survivors from New Orleans. He found his answer while sorting through old clothes at a Houston site for evacuees. As he searched for pants to fit a bone-thin man standing 6-ft. 5, the man told his story: he'd been trapped with a group of elderly without food or water. Every day for four days he swam out a second-story window to a nearby store, dragging supplies back through the polluted waters. Lindahl was transfixed by the man's quiet heroism. And that's when...
Lafrance, 32, produces "site-specific" dances that explore our relationship with public spaces--and that require months of bureaucratic arm twisting. Sens Production, the nonprofit group she helped found in 2000, raises funds and secures the sites. "We've had to fight a lot of fights," she says...
...grading system and curriculum allow a level of flexibility and freedom that is unparalleled," reads the testimony of one Yale student on the school's Web site. "Yale allows you to make your education truly yours without worrying about grade competition...
...actual construction on the museum has not yet begun. So what has been going on behind the closed doors of 32 Quincy Street?KEEP IT SILENT, KEEP IT SAFEThis summer, the staff began the long, involved process of preparing the objects in the museum for transport to the off-site location where they’ll be stored during renovations. “It’s safe to say that it’s a very well-orchestrated and very complex project,” says Daron J. Manoogian, the Harvard Art Museums’ spokesman. The Fogg...