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...Ah, the sharp sting of success. Last week Turkey was in the embarrassing position of having native son ORHAN PAMUK win the Nobel Prize for literature within a year of charging him with insulting Turkish identity. Critics also made much of Indian-born novelist KIRAN DESAI winning Britain's Man Booker Prize after her mum was short-listed three times for the $93,000 award. But the fuss is over. Everyone can go back to ignoring serious authors again...
...nature of good and evil (and how often those two subjects go hand-in-hand). The actors relish lines like, “Misfortunes one can endure—they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one’s own faults—ah!—there is the sting of life.” And they do remarkably well with many of the key scenes: a confrontation between Lady Windermere and Mrs. Erlynne is powerful, rich in desperation and dramatic irony. Nearly all the characters sound completely convincing talking elegantly about why they...
...China. Will the U.S. be able to recognize and accept that democracy and freedom as interpreted by those new global powers will be significantly different from those of Western models? And will the U.S. really be willing to share power in a way it has never done before? Lee Ah Chai Singapore...
...knew that amidst surgical rooms and cadavers there was a hotbed of steamy affairs and doctors that can only be described as “McDreamy”? Ah, the McWorld of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Centering upon the lives of five surgical interns at Seattle’s Grace Hospital, “Grey’s” has ushered in a new wave of McWords and Patrick Dempsey’s awe-inspiring comeback. With the recent release of the second season on DVD, it is time...
...SAE’s president (also known as “Eminent Archon”), Nicolas A. Yannuzzi ’07, “much of [SAE’s] goal is to improve campus life for everyone at Harvard, not just our brothers.” Ah, noblesse oblige. So whether you are a Harvard male who wants to sip Manishewitz with AEPi, build coffins with SAE, or if you just want free boneless buffalo wings, fear not: frat life (or at least Harvard’s version of it) just outside Harvard Yard...