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...shabby, venal or self-important as the cast of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, the 1937 novel that is still the most hilarious depiction of foreign correspondents and their publishers in the grip of a vigorous incomprehension of just about everything. In the book William Boot, who writes a nature column for a British newspaper called the Beast--composing sentences like "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole"--is recruited by mistake to join a collection of journalistic mountebanks and hacks in covering coup and countercoup in the fictional African land of Ishmaelia. Much has changed in journalism...
...nothing but rubbish on the Internet, you're not a film director. First there was Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu, then Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou-Chou, two films inspired by stories on the Net. Three years ago, Korean director Kwak Jae-yong read a Web column tracing the ups and downs of a relationship between two college students: she eccentric, he naive. Kwak has turned it into My Sassy Girl, an esculent entr?e billed as a romantic comedy. In fact, it's harder to categorize: the movie is absurd, bizarre; it beats to its own peculiar...
Ross G. Douthat ’02 is a history and literature concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
Antoinette C. Nwandu ’02 is an English concentrator in Cabot House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays...
...Sadly, Alex F. Rubalcava ’02 (Column, “Debunking the Senior Gift,” Feb. 27) has once again proposed the same old, tired reason that many undergraduates do not give to Senior Gift: some sort of complaint with the Harvard administration. For years, Senior Gift has been a victim of the argument that there are “better charities” more deserving of a Harvard undergraduate’s money (although, I must admit that Princeton...