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...knew as a child. It was intensely personal.” About 20 students attended the talk, asking the authors for advice on how to become a writer in the face of societal pressures to pursue professional careers. Recently, the experiences of Indian immigrants have become a hot topic in literature. Last year Kiran Desai’s “The Inheritance of Loss” won the Booker Prize, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Last month, a film based on Lahiri?...
What Kerry didn’t seem to realize is that the Cape wind farm was the most important topic he would discuss at the event. Massachusetts’ residents are growing tired of primetime, camera-crazed Kerry, to the extent that if he wishes to remain in elected office, he had better start striving earnestly to appeal to his constituents. They don’t want to hear about his quixotic quest to transform America into an ecological wonderland, and they could care less if he reaps positive national media coverage as a result. They want to hear...
...variation is what makes the publication so powerful. “The stories demonstrate that sexual assault is not only something affecting the assault victim, but also significantly affecting the sons, daughters, boyfriends, and fathers and friends,” Homaifar says. The writing does shed light on a topic often excluded from polite conversation, but does not seem to offer a solution to this growing problem. Each story walks a fine line between portraying a powerful message and sinking into a familiar trope. But occasional clichés aside, the reader is intended to gain inspiration and hope from...
...there’s not that parallel response or dialogue.”But silence wasn’t exactly the case last fall, when rumors bloomed throughout the Yard about the possibility of sexual misconduct in a freshman dorm. “It’s a voyeuristic topic, people want the details,” Homaifar said. “It’s like when people slow down in a car accident.”Balancing what she saw as a need for meaningful dialogue with sensitivity was one of her foremost concerns...
...time if it’s less-then-perfect. Others talk about spending so much time agonizing over some non-critical detail that they can’t move on to other important tasks, or they miss out on the opportunity to think deeply about the topic. Perfectionism here interferes both with meaningful learning and with successfully accomplishing one’s goals.Some students tell me that they are driven to succeed, but there is a distinction between having drive and being driven. Driven, perfectionistic students can be especially vulnerable to academic and personal difficulties such as writer?...