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...ticket counter attendant decided to chew me out for it. After a short argument and her insistence that “the Z could stand for Zachary,” I pulled out a secondary ID to confirm my story and was sent on my way (the TSA ID-checker at security signed off on my boarding pass without a word...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What’s in a Name? | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

...Checkpoints,” McPhee good-naturedly summarizes the unglamorous aspects of journalism: the deliberations about comma placement, the silly follow-up interviews, the tension between writer, editor, fact-checker and subject. It’s enough to deter many who, after the quiet delights of the preceding essays, might understandably wish to quit their day jobs and write for “The New Yorker.” But while it certainly obliterates any illusions that McPhee’s job is an easy one, it is also an affirmation of why his essays are worthwhile, both...

Author: By Abigail B. Lind, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: John McPhee’s ‘Silk Parachute’ Is an Uplifting Triumph of Style | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

...Recognize symptoms of the Swine Flu through the Interactive symptoms checker, which lists “confusion” and “unusually irritable” as symptoms of swine flu in a child...

Author: By Jessie J. Jiang | Title: Harvard Does Its Part in the Swine Flu Pandemic | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...Recognize symptoms of the Swine Flu through the Interactive symptoms checker, which lists “confusion” and “unusually irritable” as symptoms of swine flu in a child...

Author: By Jessie J. Jiang | Title: Harvard Does Its Part in the Swine Flu Pandemic | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...year-old previously worked as a fact checker for the magazine and will replace Kate Julian, who is stepping down to freelance and to join her husband in Washington, D.C. Lester most recently worked as an editor at the Paris Review, a literary magazine based in New York City...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alum Named New Yorker’s Managing Editor | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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