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...beginning at about 1994 and ending in early 2008. The novel alternates between the three characters’ tales, which are obliquely connected by the secondary characters who flit through all their lives. The plotlines are simple. Keith goes to Harvard, works as a moving man in his summer, becomes a political blogger, and eventually publishes a book. Mark spends most of the novel in Syracuse writing his dissertation on a minor figure of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Sam ends up visiting Israel and the occupied territories after failing in his attempt to write the Zionist epic and then getting...
Come next fall, Massachusetts Hall will reopen its doors to its most deserving residents: first-year students. After the transfer of control of Mass. Hall from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to the University’s central administration in the summer of 2006, the University announced last spring that no members of the class of 2011 would be placed in Mass. Hall as freshmen. This discontinuation of a time-honored tradition for Harvard first-years was unfortunate for pragmatic and symbolic reasons, and the decision to invite freshmen back into Mass. Hall is one that reflects well...
...shed, her hand quivering lightly upon the latch. If she opened the door, if she dared to set even one foot across the threshold, the decision would be made, she would do it. She was suddenly aware of the fragrant air, astonishingly heavy and moist for the summer. She heard, as if from a piano, note by melodious note, the birds that nested in the lone apple tree that leaned over the shed; saw as if through a magnifying glass the leaves of grass which were still the pale green of newborn shoots. She inhaled quickly and deeply...
...will raise the baseline income below which loans are forgiven from $46,500 to $60,000 to aid middle-income graduate students, double the number of fully funded post-graduate fellowships from 14 to 28, hire a full-time public interest director to counsel students, and increase funding for summer public interest opportunities, according to a statement Koh sent to the law school community. “Our philosophy has always been that money not be the sole deciding factor in a student’s choice of a public interest position during any phase of his or her career...
...needs a long-term military presence in that perpetually brutal noncountry. On taxes, McCain is likely to find himself debating ... himself. He was against the Bush tax cuts before he was for them. He has now proposed a new and costly round of corporate tax breaks - and a summer gasoline-tax holiday that is just the sort of flummery he has traditionally opposed. McCain's insistence on cutting pork-barrel projects from the federal budget is worthy but not very significant - the narcissism of small deductions. He would be better served by announcing his intention to kill some...