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Several weeks ago, I found myself in the company of Mukesh “Mark” Mehta while on Christmas Break in Montana. Mark’s Great Falls home—he has one in Bombay, too—is a labyrinthine world wherein the twains of Bollywood and the American West meet. There is the print of Charlie Russell’s “Lewis and Clark Meeting the Flatheads” in one corner—a coming-together between “Indian-Feather and Indian-Dot,” Marks notes gleefully while...
...have recently had an awkward email encounter with my concentration’s department program administrator, wherein she intimated that I was mentally unfit to write a thesis and outright told me that my “status as an honors joint concentrator is in serious jeopardy.” What’s more, she sent this e-mail to me 24 hours before the first 20 pages of my thesis are due to the department— talk about bad timing. What is an appropriate response? Mail-bombing the Barker Center? Poisoning the tea at the department?...
...promises to bring X, Y, Z artists without necessarily being in a position to evaluate the feasibility of actually bringing such an artist,” he says.The HCC’s production chair, Samantha H. Fink ’07, says the current group structure—wherein new members are selected by the existing group—already represents student interests.“I feel that because of what we are and who is interested in being a part of us, we have assembled a fairly representative group,” she says.CH-CH-CH-CHANGESDespite this...
...hard to see how the methods the Administration authorized for use against some of their detainees could not have violated the Geneva conventions. Common article 3 of the conventions prevents any "outrages on the personal dignity" of detainees. Among the highlights of the Administration's approved techniques: waterboarding, wherein a prisoner is made to believe he is drowning; intimidation using dogs; stripping of prisoners...
...simply living through a downturn, one of those periodic dead spots wherein the muses take a smoke break? Has the country's artistic talent been siphoned off by sexier, better-paying media with bigger audiences? (TV has been suspiciously good lately.) Or could the professionalization of "creative writing," in the form of scores of M.F.A. programs, actually be retarding the progress of contemporary literature--hammering eccentric geniuses into workshop-style conformity, then drowning them out by handing diplomas to their mediocre peers by the bushel...