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...charming businessman and geneticist Robert Kurton participates in a public debate with an unnamed novelist. The subject: genetic enhancement of human beings. The shy author begins, awkwardly reading from a prewritten speech. But his argument is complex, as Powers writes, “The writer’s thought is so dense that every clause tries to circle back for another try before plunging on.” Even the narration has trouble following the train of thought. Kurton takes stage, joking, “Every divide between the Two Cultures is bridgeable, except this one: humanists write out their...
...about balance,” he says, referring to an equal presentation of two contrasting sides of an argument. “I think balance is used to pigeonhole stuff; I think it’s about understanding.” But this thoughtfulness does not have to promote a particular agenda.“For me, what separates propaganda from art is not the place from which the art comes, but are they approaching it from a place that is academically rigorous,” Beran says. “Are they asking good questions?”STUDENTS...
...million from a $3.23 billion budget, which now stands at $2.6 billion. The legislature has also proposed a 32 percent increase in student tuition by fall 2010. In response, students, faculty, and staff protested the cuts yesterday. Imagine choosing Berkeley or UCLA over Harvard or Yale because you thought the tuition was that much lower...
...trying to disassemble his pastiche of cultural references isn’t worth half the effort he clearly put into creating it.“Chronic City” prevails as a captivating and enjoyable piece of fiction, but if Lethem intended it to be as meta-analytical and thought-provoking as the glimpses of this material might suggest, he certainly fails to get his point across in any meaningful way.—Staff writer Joshua J. Kearney can be reached at kearney@fas.harvard.edu...
...Senator John Kerry told me recently. We were in New York City for the U.N. General Assembly festivities, talking about the frustrations the Obama Administration is facing overseas, especially in Afghanistan, when I changed the subject and asked about health care. Kerry's certainty led to an unexpected thought: Barack Obama may well be having an easier time handling domestic issues than foreign ones. Indeed, he may be headed for the most successful domestic-policy year by a Democratic President since Lyndon Johnson's legislative tidal wave of 1965. Obama has pushed through a $787 billion stimulus package and doubled...