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...amazing thing about stories is that they, in fact, travel,” novelist Chinua Achebe explains, using the term both figuratively and literally. “You let the story develop. You let the story begin. The story makes all kinds of preparations for its own arrival.”No one knows that truth better than Achebe. The Nigerian author, who currently teaches at Bard College, established himself as Nigeria’s literary ambassador to the Western world with his first novel, “Things Fall Apart,” published in 1959. This past Tuesday...
...Committee on House Life (CHL) mulled over the future of specialty advisors in the Houses and freshmen dorms during their second meeting of the year yesterday. Specialty advisors—a term that refers to both House tutors and freshman proctors—serve as liaisons to students on a variety of issues such as race relations, sexual assault and sexual harassment, and public service. Much of the discussion surrounded the current state of the program in the upperclass Houses, which was characterized as ambiguous and inconsistent. While House Masters assign tutors to these roles, many do not receive training...
Though English 10a currently enrolls 121 students, some English concentrators volunteered an antipathy toward the class and its spring-term companion...
...position to judge it - is anyone's guess. A Democratic leadership aide said lawmakers are looking for "proof that they won't be back, hat in hand, in 12 months' time." Another said they desired evidence "that they will be able to operate in the long term without government assistance, which by definition means green" technologies. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
Nowhere but on Capitol Hill could a 69-year-old politician serving his 17th term be considered a Young Turk. But in challenging and unseating a committee chairman known as "the Truck," California Congressman Henry Waxman has succeeded in the kind of power sortie that happens only once every few decades in Congress - and put himself in a position where he will help determine the fate of much of Barack Obama's domestic agenda...