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...life. Can you expand more of what was in your head when you were approaching this biography in illuminating all these aspects of his life that don’t come to the face of most writing?LD: The first thing is that he wrote probably the world??s greatest autobiography, and in my view, invented the way we try to interpret our lives. To give you one quick example, nobody before him to my knowledge writing an account of their life had more than 2 or 3 pages on the first 20 years of their life...
...Patricia Powell and Brad Watson, as well as with Radcliffe Institute Fellow and novelist Gish Jen ’77. “She was funny and brilliant, kind of like her work,” James said of Jen. “She made me consider the contemporary world??why we write, why we make art.” In her senior year at Harvard, James was faced with a difficult career choice She decided to pursue an MFA in creative writing from Columbia. “When deciding between film and writing, I guess I felt...
...Under the aegis of reducing “wasteful spending” and favoring weapons for Iraq and Afghanistan over so-called “Cold War” systems, the administration will cancel further procurement of the world??s best fighter aircraft, end production of its most versatile cargo plane, do away with the flagship military communications satellite program for the next decade, scrap several major missile-defense projects and a search and rescue helicopter project, and significantly delay or cancel many U.S. Navy shipbuilding programs...
...with President Obama’s pronounced goals in domestic policy. The idea of withdrawing funds that support the most cutting-edge research by the nation’s best and brightest in a field in which the U.S. has perhaps the largest lead over any other in the world??advanced technological development—is questionable at best. It goes directly against the ideals he has promoted domestically of stimulating our economy, supporting science and technology, and providing opportunities for young engineers and scientists to engage in the most exciting and advanced work possible...
While it is a shame that Arab leaders have supported Bashir, it is more alarming to see the Western world??s leaders sit idly by as Bashir roams free, still in power of the people he once massacred. We can only hope that our leaders’ inaction will not lead to another “never again” moment...