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...toll. People who traveled with her from the earliest days in Iowa say she was a quick study, receptive to feedback on what was working and what wasn't. She began talking less about the country's problems and more about its promise. By the time the New Yorker parodied the parody of her as a machine-gun-toting revolutionary, she was reintroducing herself at the Democratic Convention as a wife, a mother, a sister and a daughter, listing why she loved her country and why her husband was the man to lead it. (See pictures of Barack Obama...
...performance when Yu cued the bell ringers—more properly called the Klappermeisters—with a call from his cell phone. Elif I. Batuman ’99, a freelance writer and former Lowell resident, wrote an extended article in the April 27 issue of The New Yorker about the storied history of Lowell’s bells. Like many undergraduates at Harvard, Batuman said she was not very interested in the bells during her time as a student. “I just had no idea what was up with them other than that they were rung...
Nearly every student wishes there were more hours in the day. In lieu of that, many Harvard undergrads have found a way to be more productive with the 24 hours they have: As a recent piece in the New Yorker reports, the use of “neuroenhancing” study drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin at places like Harvard is pervasive. Though the New Yorker piece is largely anecdotal and does not necessarily indicate a meaningful rise in the use of study drugs at Harvard, it calls attention to the greater implications of the use of such drugs...
...Along with New Yorker staff writer Kelefa T. Sanneh ’97, Rojas self-consciously pulled RH in a DIY direction. “We wouldn’t play anything from a major label,” he says. “We wouldn’t play anything with a barcode with...
...civil rights struggle, gains are made by spectacular boldness, and Newsom was spectacularly bold." - Kate Kendell, a gay rights activist, on Newsom's decision to let same-sex couples get married in San Francisco, The New Yorker...