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...Despite the top-notch quality of its students, Deep Springs’ community has critics. Over the past two years, Deep Springs has received an influx of media coverage with prominent articles in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Both articles tout the cowboy-intellectual aspect of the college, and students say in doing so the articles missed the meaningfulness of Deep Springs...
Vesper appears to be the first of Bond’s love interests to have graduated from Pampers to Playtex. As Anthony Lane aptly put it in the New Yorker, “One thing she definitely is not is a Bond girl. Vesper is a Bond woman.” It is strange that the first Bond femme we can feel true sympathy for is one who is, herself, expressly unsympathetic...
Gopnik, a regular writer for The New Yorker, explains how he and his wife decided to raise their children in New York, a city that, in his eyes, has become “a children’s city.” Gopnik’s descriptions of children’s gyms on each block in some neighborhoods and strollers that crowd the sidewalk present a vision of New York from the point of view of both child and parent...
...former New Yorker, and the photographs of missing persons on the wall of that Baghdad police station reminded me of the pictures and notes on walls in downtown Manhattan after 9/11. The desperation and sorrow of people whose loved ones have disappeared is very familiar. The story of Waddah al-Anbari's ordeal as a kidnap victim made me shiver, cringe and wonder whether I would be able to keep my wits in a similar situation. It also got me to thinking about the untold consequences of war. Please keep telling these stories...
...Jewish numbers climbed at the institutions of higher learning that had once been reserved for long-established families of white Protestant descent, anti-Semitism increased. Nevertheless, by the time Lowell took over as Harvard president in 1909, Harvard was more than 20 percent Jewish, according to a recent New Yorker article. Alarmed, President Lowell eventually instituted a quota that cut the population of Jews at Harvard down to 15 percent over his 24-year tenure. To justify its actions, Harvard turned to Jewish stereotypes of “race clannishness” and abilities limited to purely brainy pursuits...