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Last Saturday, before Harvard’s first ever Crossword Puzzle Tournament, FM sat down with Will Shortz, editor of The New York Times?? daily crossword, to talk about Rubik’s cubes, the English lexicon, and the word “ucalegon.”1.FM: Are you excited about the tournament today? WS: I am excited about the tournament. If you go back twenty years, crosswords were thought of as an old person thing and most people who created and solved puzzles were basically fifty and older…Now there seem...
...Robert P. Ciofani ’09—told the assembled cruciverbalists that “We are going to show you why our tournament is better than Yale’s by bringing on Will Shortz.” Shortz is the editor of the New York Times??s daily crossword, and Kyle A. Mahowald ’09—the Harvard College Crossword Society’s founder and president—interned with him last summer. “Kyle raised the idea of doing a crossword contest at Harvard, and I thought...
...counted 627,000 subscribers in its rolls. Of the 627,000, 34 percent had online-only subscriptions. The remainder received access as part of their home delivery subscriptions, McNulty said. But many readers—including college students on notoriously tight budgets—were not pleased with The Times?? 2005 decision to charge for content. “I read [The Times] every day,” said Chia N. Mustafa ’09. “So I was kind of pissed off—news should be accessible to everyone...
...relativism but it is relative, it is not individualism but it affirms the individual. In the end, the essay never specifies what exactly it is to be “without isms.” Literature is about the author, Gao insists—many, many times??and writing is something one does for one’s self, not for anyone else or for any idea.Of all the essays in the book, “The Case for Literature,” the lecture which inspired the compilation, is by far the most polished, most authentic...
Kristof has been a Times op-ed columnist since 2001. Before that, he was an economics correspondent and the Times?? bureau chief in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Tokyo...