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Singapore-born and San Francisco-based writer Wena Poon is nevertheless banking on the continuing appeal of émigré literature with a debut collection of short stories that takes as its theme the Singaporean diaspora. Given that the latter has been so infrequently explored, Lions in Winter has a...
In fact, by far the best story in the collection is about the very Singaporean dilemma of national service. So that their male scions may escape this obligation, some Singaporean families flee the country - like the family of Eddie in "Those Who Serve, Those Who Do Not." In this story...
Enter the Death Star, otherwise known as Hulu hulu.com) When NBC Universal and News Corp. announced last year that they were jointly starting their own YouTube knockoff, the guffaws were loud and long: everybody who's ever seen a made-for-TV movie knows that the scrappy underdog always beats...
Meanwhile, Gavin DeGraw sings about the really important things—like not wanting to be anything other than what he’s been trying to be lately—while wearing what can only be described as an “interesting” assortment of wool caps...
Your excellent obituary of former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles omitted one of Knowles’s signal contributions to the University: his integral role in the 1999 merger of Harvard and Radcliffe. The merger dissolved the 120-year-old Radcliffe College, created the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced...