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...That's hardly a profound point, whether you agree with it or not, but it does set the tone for what follows. Both the Naipaul fan and the general reader will turn the pages of A Writer's People with mounting dismay, not simply because it compares poorly with his previous work - the slow waning of which has been well documented - but because it indulges Naipaul's famous petulance to such an extent that the man himself fails at looking and feeling, whatever his book's subtitle might be. In place of truth-telling, he has substituted superciliousness and spite...
...their stand the hard way on Oct. 2 when, in an open letter to members of the Undergraduate Council’s Executive Board, he announced the disbandment of the UC party grant program, which provided thousands of dollars every week for private parties on campus. Both the abrupt tone and the sudden timing of Pilbeam’s missive sent shock waves through the community, stoking the flames of open-list debates and inspiring conjecture about the machinations of the College...
...report of the Committee on Social Clubs marked a distinct change in tone from the 2004 report released by the Committee to Address Alcohol and Health at Harvard; it placed greater emphasis on liability. Although the report acknowledged that the task would “not be successful without ongoing student input,” the Committee on Social Clubs—in contrast to the former committee—did not include any undergraduates from the College...
...Harvard foes Brown, Princeton, and California rounded out the top five.“We basically just tried to row as strongly and consistently as possible,” senior Anton Wintner said, adding, “The Head of the Charles is important in that it sets the tone for training. This is the biggest regatta that we have between now and when we go to California in the spring. We’re quite pleased with how we did overall with the team...
...single digits - often compare themselves to David in the biblical battle against Goliath and the Philistines. The implication is usually that second- or third-tier candidates are more virtuous because they haven't sold out to become front-runners. Not surprisingly, the rhetorical appeal has a self-justifying tone that rarely works. But on Saturday, in the hands of Huckabee, a Baptist preacher, the David reference became a rallying cry that resonated with social conservatives...