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...ends the chapter praising the love he has now found with his family. As the book goes on, the solid lineup of writers consistently performs. To keep the reader thoroughly engaged, many chapters experiment with forms other beyond plain prose. For example, Alex Gregory, a cartoonist for The New Yorker, contributes two brilliant cartoons about situations in which technology has harmed relationships. David Wain, co-writer of “Wet Hot American Summer,” offers a script about a guy trying to date a woman who keeps blowing him off. Tom McCarthy, an actor and writer...
...Yorker article quoted the former president of Stanford as saying of the decision to hire former provost Condoleezza Rice that, “it would be disingenuous for me to say that the fact that she was a woman, the fact that she was black…weren’t in my mind. They were...
...held ever since.Greenhouse’s seniority and studied attention to her subject matter made her an object of tremendous respect among her colleagues in Washington, said Jeffrey R. Toobin ’82 a former Crimson editorial chair who covers the courts for The New Yorker magazine.Never was Greenhouse’s influence more evident, Toobin said, than the December evening when the Supreme Court passed its ruling on the contentious 2000 presidential election. The decision was released late at night. “There probably were 75 [reporters] there and it was pretty obvious that everyone...
Adrian Tomine is a critically acclaimed cartoonist best known for his comic book series “Optic Nerve” and his soulful illustrations, which have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. His graphic novel “Shortcomings” is listed among The New York Times’ “100 Notable Books of 2007.” Tomine, who dicussed “Shortcomings” at the Brattle Theatre yesterday, sat down with The Crimson to talk about education and inspiration, comic book aesthetics and culture, and representing race and gender...
...received a transplant of stem cells harvested from the blood of an infant's discarded umbilical cord at Boston's Dana Farber Institute, to help him fight a rare blood condition called myelodysplastic syndrome. After doctors couldn't find a matching bone-marrow donor, the 58-year-old New Yorker says his last hope was cord blood, a solution that would not exist without parental donors. New parents, Beninati urges, "must understand the importance this decision can mean for the public good...