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...Back here in Manhattan, Newark might as well be New Delhi. As Spiegelman wrote to the show's producers: "While swell for New Jersey residents, placing the first half of the 20th century's comic strip artists into the Newark Museum is, from the perspective of this provincial New Yorker, the equivalent of hiding them in a Federal Witness Protection program." The Jewish Museum also censored some of Crumb's more robust drawings, provoking Spiegelman to withdraw his art from the show he had helped inspire...
...native New Yorker and a graduate of Hunter College High School, Kagan blazed a brilliant academic path in her early years, moving from Princeton to Oxford to Harvard, and then holding positions at the Supreme Court and the White House...
...Oracle Bones Peter Hessler Archaeologists call them "oracle bones," the turtle shells and cattle shoulder blades dating from the 13th and 14th centuries B.C. that bear China's first known writing-mostly prophecies. Hessler, who writes about China for the New Yorker, has fashioned his own oracle bone: a lyrical, sharply observed meditation on the country's rich past, frantic present and uncertain future. We meet obtuse bureaucrats, idealistic scholars and young people on the make. Mostly, Hessler focuses on four people: Emily, who gives up her well-paid factory job to train as a teacher of disabled children; Willy...
...Harvard. I never even went to high school,” said McCourt, beginning a speech that kept the audience laughing. Drawing on material from his memoir, he reflected on his Irish education and childhood as compared with those of his New Yorker students. “We had the victim-type education,” McCourt said of the Irish, which “conditioned” them to believe they were a “fighting race” of Catholics who “hated the English, but [were] always betrayed by some son of a bitch...
...Sept. 4 New Yorker article raised the question of class at the college, suggesting that the school consists of primarily white, upper-middle-class boys. According to Rosenblum, the school pulls primarily from the East and West Coasts as well as from urban centers...