Word: warners
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There are two alums of my high school currently affiliated with Harvard College: myself and President Neil L. Rudenstine. At the tiny prep school which I attended in southern Connecticut, we like to recall the legendary Coach Warner who is remembered to have bellowed at Rudenstine, then a fledgling baseball player, "Rudenstine, if you could learn to put one foot in front of the other, you might make something of yourself someday." While I won't speculate upon President Rudenstine's assessment of his own successes, I can assure you that we're both a long way from home...
Because, from a purely utilitarian perspective, that jackass whom you so thoroughly enjoyed mocking over lunch, coffee and cigarettes could easily end up being the guy with the sweet hook-up for you at The New Yorker or Warner Brothers. But even such pragmatism holds deeper meaning: Once the smoke clears from Tercentenary Theater and those of us with no outstanding library fines have gotten our sheepskins, there will still be 1,600 singing men and women of Harvard. Like it or not, once an alum, always an alum-Harvard will never let you go. (When it comes to tracking...
...Capitol Hill to make an impassioned argument for government regulation in the cable-Internet industry. His pitch: the FCC needs to make sure that the little guys--which in his book include AOL--don't suffer if proprietorial cable services like AT&T's At Home or Time Warner's RoadRunner end up owning the online gateway. "It's a battle," Case said, "between good and evil." The FCC isn't entirely convinced, but it has agreed to look into the matter...
...much to build one grand argument but rather, she says, to "make the books stories in their own right." Nevertheless, a feminist, anti-Freudian thread runs throughout her work. Unlike Bruno Bettelheim, whose classic work The Uses of Enchantment puts a Freudian gloss on fairy tales, Warner believes the stories "represent a way of thinking about problems, particularly family problems: intimacy, sexuality and practical areas like money, dowries, property and hierarchy--who has the power to free women from their poverty?" In her new book she examines the way fear and pleasure have become intertwined, as horror films and books...
...daughter of an Italian mother and a British bookseller father, Warner grew up in Cairo and Brussels before being sent to an English convent school from ages 9 to 17. Though she eventually, painfully, rejected her faith, she says she is still discovering the ways in which Catholicism shaped her. The daily prayers and occasional retreats, those "thrilling" stories about saints, all that icon worship and "the discipline of identification with the suffering body of Christ," she says, "wakened my image-making tendencies...