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...semester off. I needed to remember what had made me fall in love with Harvard to begin with, and why it was worth it to stay here. Once I got to thinking, I discovered I didn’t have to look far at all to find this spark. For all its publicity and brand-name recognition, Harvard is really a school of multitalented and accomplished young people. But it doesn’t matter that in twenty years you can look back and say of a future president or Pulitzer Prize winner, “I got plastered with...
According to Gould-Wartofsky, it was the passage in December of the bill, House Resolution 4437, that “was the spark that lit the match.” Though a similar bill has yet to pass the Senate, Herndon and Gould-Wartofsky said that the issue was not dead...
...DIED. MURIEL SPARK, 88, British author of poetry, short stories and more than 20 novels whose elegantly spare, often satirical writing explored morality and perceptions of truth; in Florence, Italy. A Foreign Office propagandist during World War II, Spark converted to Catholicism in 1954 and credited her faith for "inner stability which enables me to write better." Her best-known novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), about an eccentric, Mussolini-worshipping teacher at a girls' school, was based on Spark's Edinburgh school days. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for playing the title role in the 1969 film...
DIED. Muriel Spark, 88, British author of poetry, short stories and more than 20 novels whose elegantly spare, often satirical writing explored morality and perceptions of truth; in Florence, Italy. A Foreign Office propagandist during World War II, Spark converted to Catholicism in 1954 and credited her faith for "inner stability which enables me to write better." Her best-known novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), about an eccentric, Mussolini-worshipping teacher at a girls' school, was based on Spark's Edinburgh school days. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for playing the title role in the 1969 film...
...expects the post-convergence map to be "very close to what may be the final borderlines" between Israel and the Palestinians--a notion that outrages Palestinians, since Olmert also says he intends to hold on to the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank. And the plan could spark further ugly confrontations between the government and settlers. All that turmoil would test the fortitude of an experienced, popular leader like Sharon--let alone a man who, according to a pre-election poll, only 1 in 8 Israelis say they would like to have over for dinner. But those who know...