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...Most Harvard kids know how to spell Palestine,” said HSI cultural chair Avi D. Heilman...
...company," he claims. "Everyone expects me to be a great raconteur, but I'm a terrible storyteller. And so are most of the travel writers I've met." Bryson has led a fittingly peripatetic life. He moved to England from his native Iowa in 1973 and, after a brief spell working as an orderly at a psychiatric hospital, began writing full time. He stumbled into travel writing when the only book proposal he managed to sell was The Lost Continent. He returned to the U.S. in '95 at his family's instigation but keeps a flat in London. The relocations...
...Dave Y. Terrence ’03 is mulling over his Harvard-Cambridge Scholarship essay, which he wrote 15 minutes before it was due last Tuesday. “Why didn’t I spell-check this first?” Terrence lamented, referring to his spelling of “bottem,” “sincrely,” and “goooooo.” “I mean, what does ‘goooooo’ even mean? What the hell was that...
David Gray has broken his quiet spell since charging into the American music scene with his 1999 album White Ladder. His latest collection, A New Day At Midnight, is a set of 12 brand new songs that reflect Gray’s overarching mission to write and record music with personal meaning. He continues to avoid the pressures that fame, a solid first album, and a Grammy nomination tend to exert on the singer-songwriter. White Ladder fans will find that while Gray’s distinctive voice has not changed, A New Day At Midnight displays a very different...
Voters showed that they comprehended the two sides of the debate clearly enough when they followed the respective implications of the two ballot initiatives, which did not, after all, spell out the responses they intended. Evidently the lapse came when voters couldn’t put two and two together to see that both initiatives were asking the same question, albeit in a different way. And in all fairness, this is not at all obvious until one is told it. Tuesday’s results were therefore conclusive evidence more of a failure in the system by which voters become...