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...Prize--winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, crafts into a tale of unspeakable barbarism and unshakable strength. Once he crosses paths with his protagonist, Kidder's narrative loses steam, but he still manages to evoke Deo's sense of dislocation and--especially for a man with "some authority to speak about evil"--his extraordinary capacity for forgiveness...
...That's not likely to placate the anti-Hosni front, but some observers say his opponents are attacking a symptom rather than the disease. Five Middle East specialists contacted to speak about the flap made the same central point: Hosni's comments are anything but unusual in the political settings in which he made them. (None of the analysts - academics, think tank researchers and one diplomat - would go on the record with their views, pointing to the explosive nature of the controversy.) "This is certainly not excusing them, but the kinds of [anti-Jewish], anti-Israel comments attributed to Hosni...
...Happily, these narrative games don’t slide into mere linguistic exercises. The thanks for this is due largely to the playfulness of the characters, who speak in slangy “Gliglish” and meet in the self-proclaimed “cemetery of language.” Oliveira’s lover La Maga enters like a light breeze: her intuitive connections to the things around her serve as a foil for the often laughably cerebral shoptalk of the others. “She picked up a leaf from the edge of the sidewalk and spoke...
...expand more on “what’s happening in the classroom” since he thinks “pedagogical innovation” is “an exciting thing about what’s happening.” Following the event, administrators were available to speak with students at the Queen’s Head Pub. The College has also been marketing Gen Ed to students via course trailers on the Gen Ed Web site and communication through the Peer Advising Fellow program. —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...
That said, Harvard did recently release reports both on the arts and on House renewal—and words clearly speak louder than actions...