Word: columnists
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...students on this campus dream up convoluted application processes for extracurricular organizations and then shove them down their peers' throats. Equally mystifying is the reason why the members of the student body not already a part of these 'in' groups are so eager to participate in what one Crimson columnist has called an "illusion of meritocracy...
SARAH VOWELL, a columnist for Salon.com and a contributing editor to This American Life on Public Radio International, is usually grabbed by topics that, as she puts it, are not very girly: guns, the Godfather movies and goth culture. Yet in reviewing Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, she was surprised by the strong reactions the book provokes, which range from worshipful to wary. "The book's strength is basically how sane it is," says Vowell, who adds, however, that reading the 884-page manual had her "completely, overly aware of the state of my bathroom." Vowell...
...their part, Fallahian and Rafsanjani have denounced Ganji's writings as lies. Even some of Iran's liberals, fearing a hard-line backlash against the reform camp, believe he goes too far. "We need to make sure that our approach is measured," says Morteza Mardihah, a columnist for the Tehran daily Asr-e-Azadegan. "With Ganji, it is like passing a car accident. Sometimes reality is too harsh--and unnecessary to look...
...streets. He has picked up some wisdom along the way as well as countless intriguing stories. Over the years, he claims to have accepted fares from Harvard notables: Neil Rudenstine, Alan Dershowitz, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates and Stephen Jay Gould, and real-world gurus like George Will, a columnist for Newsweek. Carlos describes Rudenstine as "very humble, very down to earth," and Gates as "a real nice, fun guy, a Democrat." He recalls driving Gould to Logan airport, and having "a great conversation about creation versus evolution science...
...January 1974 the columnist Joseph Alsop declared, "I have begun to think that the '70s are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth..." The decade seemed to be a convergence of ghastly fashions (ultrasuedes, double-knit bellbottoms and medallions, blow-dry haircuts), exotic self-esteem indulgences (est, Gestalt, bioenergetics, Arica, Reichian therapy, Krishna consciousness) and assorted bad ideas (disco, Erich von Daniken's cosmology) with such larger historical dysfunctions as double-digit inflation, riots on the gas lines, Watergate and the losing of the Vietnam...