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...interviews and visiting Sudan together. What could have been an awkward literary three-legged race became instead a synergistic collaboration. In person there's an obvious and rather touchingly empathic bond between the two: Eggers is the confident, gregarious one, while Deng speaks in quiet, melodious, not-quite-grammatical English. "Dave would listen to me," he says, "and he would write and send me a chapter, and I see him in me. And I ask him sometimes, 'How are you able to put yourself...
...deciding that classes like Science B-57, “Dinosaurs,” Literature and Arts B-48, “Chinese Imaginary Space,” and English 151, “The 19th Century Novel” aren’t sufficiently relevant to be included in the general education curriculum, the committee runs the risk of trivializing a host of departments and a number of highly distinguished academics. Though it may be that the scope of some courses makes them better suited to the new Core, the committee seems to be specifically accusing these courses...
...literally” could simply be one of a long list of English contranyms or “Janus words,” named after the two-faced Roman god. These are words that have contradictory meanings. My favorites include “fast” (moving rapidly and bound to position), “buckle” (to fasten and to come undone, collapse), and “impregnable” (able to be impregnated and impossible to enter...
Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives questioned committee chairs of the Preliminary Report of the Task Force on General Education in a town hall meeting last night, focusing on proposed approaches to science and math. Bass Professor of English Louis Menand and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons spoke to a group of 50 students that weren’t limited to UC members in Harvard Hall. Calling the core “old-fashioned,” Menand said that the current system fragmented knowledge into specific academic disciplines more suitable for the ivory tower than the outside world...
When designer Elie Tahari landed in New YorkCity at age 19 in 1971, he had $300 in his pocket and couldn't read English. After a "miserable" childhood spent in an Israeli orphanage, Tahari had only one dream, and that was the Big Apple--as he had seen it in the movies. With a plane ticket provided free by one of his brothers, then an airline employee, Tahari landed determined to make money...