Word: yorkerism
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...shame that goes unread night after night because there is too much homework to do. The shame piles up by the side of the bed, staring us in the face every time we accidentally wake up in the morning. The shame’s name is The New Yorker; the shame is a reminder of our intellectual impotence and poor time-management skills. The cartoons are the only thing we read; we do it even though it makes us feel bad. FM got to interview the New Yorker’s cartoon editor Bob Mankoff when he guest-lectured...
While Summers publicly urged members of the Harvard community to “respect the rights of those who wish to hear the speaker,” an article in The New Yorker suggested that Summers was furious with the invitation and privately pushed the English Department to dissociate itself from Paulin’s views...
...voice?and discovered it was in English. Despite her initially limited command of the written language, she eventually dropped her plans to become a scientist and earned writing degrees from Iowa's prestigious graduate program. She soon began publishing astonishingly mature short stories in magazines like The New Yorker and earned a $200,000 publishing deal from Random House at the age of 31. Now she has released her first book, a short-story collection titled A Thousand Years of Good Prayers...
...native New Yorker, Zornow is an acclaimed battle DJ, having won several national competitions before he even entered college. He’s performed with members of acclaimed DJ group The X-ecutioners, and he’s worked alongside major-label superstars The Roots and Gang Starr. Since coming to Harvard, he’s DJ-ed dozens of area parties and performs with Awkward Landing, a trio of Boston...
...them make less than $10,000 a year; 372,000 of them have Alzheimer's. Republicans realize that after Katrina, they cannot risk another crisis in which the government appears to be abandoning its most vulnerable citizens. Some are already making that connection. Aniela Toscano, 56, a New Yorker living in a shelter, has run up $885 in credit-card debt thanks to a brand-new bill for drugs and is worried that she can no longer afford her seizure medication. "What happened in New Orleans?" she says. "They let those people...