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The first surprise is that Kerry Max Cook escaped the coolly efficient clutches of the Texas death-penalty system. After 20 years behind bars, 13 of them spent on death row on a murder charge, Cook walked free in 1999 bearing horrifying tales of prosecutorial misconduct. The even bigger surprise...
This collection ranges from "essays," like the self-explanatory, "I Hate Dali," to tales like "Peculiar Celebrity," about the wife of a high-school teacher. The strongest of these involves a nine-year-old girl who discovers a device in her great-aunt's basement. The story the aunt tells...
This year's winning theses covered a vast array of topics--studying everything from new methods of poverty measurements to postmodern adaptations of fairy tales.
Soman S. Chainani '01, who is also a Crimson executive, opted for a flashier topic--evil women in postmodern fairy tales.
Chainani said over the last few years, some authors have reformatted fairy tales to re-cast women's roles. Chainani described it as a movement to "make wicked women not so wicked."