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...there's a catch. Fears that loans forgiven without strings attached will only enrich corrupt governments without helping the poor have led rich countries to impose strict conditions. As a result, the benefits of debt relief have so far been limited to a few desperate countries like Mali, Guyana and Burkina Faso. Many others, including Nigeria and Haiti, may be years away from similar programs...
...growing shelves of the history of sexuality section in the bookstore, Make Love, Not War, boldly claims to be "the first serious treatment of the events, ideas, and personalities that drove the sexual revolution." Yet sex is a subject almost impossible to keep within the bounds of strict academic discourse. Allyn falls victim to loose scholarship and resorts to anecdotes as proof for unfounded social theories. His thesis, which purports that the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was unique, is simple and unoriginal. Nonetheless, Make Love Not War is an interesting compilation of stories about...
...famous for demanding that all productions follow these directions to the letter. The demands of Beckett's estate are an extreme example of a call for authorial authority but not an abnormal one. The Dramatists Guild, the only national union of dramatic writers, encourages its members to stipulate a strict adherence to stage directions whenever they sign a contract for a new production. And more than one major playwright in recent memory has disavowed connection to a particular performance because of a disregard for their written directions, Robert Anderson's criticisms of the London run of his famous...
...writes that e-mail is simply inappropriate for condolences, apologies, thank-you's and other occasions when only a letter will do: "Even without tearstains, there is just something earnest-looking about those wandering lines and shadings of ink." Some of this apparent earnestness is surely due to the strict laws that still govern letter writing. For all the talk of "netiquette" (which delights Miss Manners), e-mail has yet to succumb to the rule of a similar code: smiley faces and other vulgarities are allowed, and even the most stringent rules of grammar are regularly relaxed...
Even in a city of blue laws, Harvard seems to be especially vigorous in keeping the gifts of Dionysius out of its formerly ivy-clad walls. But what is troubling is not the University's strict stance toward college drinking--nationally, there has dramatic upswing in concern over alcohol on campus--but that the University can wield so much influence over private commerce in the community. Harvard's staunch refusal to compromise and bullying tactics shut down what was otherwise a sound business proposal that would serve legal-age residents in Cambridge and Boston. If the University was a private...