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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Reader contains a wide variety of selections from West's oeuvre, with everything from a short story to television interviews to commentrary on race, politics, literature, music and sexuality. It is a book about self-discovery, and West's efforts to come to terms with himself and the world...

Author: By Erik Beach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Years of Debate Bound in One Volume | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

One example of what draws criticism is the way in which West writes a short introduction to each excerpt in the Reader. While these introductions often help to shed light on the issue at hand or provide necessary background information, they just as often appear to be needlessly pompous. For...

Author: By Erik Beach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Years of Debate Bound in One Volume | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

David Horowitz's "Cornel West: No Light in his Attic" appeared in the Oct. 11, 1999 issue of online magazine Salon (reprinted in the Harvard Salient earlier this fall). In the article, Horowitz lambasts West for what Horowitz sees as his intellectual emptiness and pretension: "While his writings combine the...

Author: By Erik Beach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Years of Debate Bound in One Volume | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

Of course, it makes sense - loneliness is the enemy for most here, and this place can be hard on what they call the "mental housing," especially for the de-feminized females whose boyfriends have stopped writing. But for those far beyond high school - and thus for the most part far...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Private Is the Last Thing You Can Be | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

4)? Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi this week tried to extend an olive branch to the U.S. in a strongly worded denunciation of terrorism. What constitutional office does Ghaddafi hold in Libya?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekly News Quiz No. 4 | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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