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...also was a bit shocked by how glib all of the quotes in the article were. Do participants in this program really believe that riding in an ambulance is "playing in the street?" I understand how it can be an exciting and even enjoyable experience, but I am glad that I never had to be picked up by an ambulance carrying a Harvard student out for "a lot of fun" and "more trauma." --Emily Gregory...
Congratulations are in order, but there is also concern. Yes, the president's mother is smiling down in approval of the choice of a female secretary of state, glad that her son who had learned about foreign policy as an aide to Senator William J. Fulbright has his own foreign policy protege in Madeline Albright. But there is always the possibility that she will be judged differently, by the dreaded double standard. Will her foreign policy successes be written off as having been accomplished by a woman pretending to be "One of the guys?" Conversely, will her failures be blamed...
...Dark Places (Knopf). James Ellroy's mother was murdered in 1958, when her only child was 10. The crime was never solved, and the son affected to be glad he was no longer under her strict spell. But now that he has grown famous as a writer of crime fiction--by no coincidence--he has decided to re-open the case and his own wounds. Ellroy's search for his mother's killer transcends the personal; it is a gripping meditation on the men who kill and the women who die at their hands...
Jyotsna Dey, Neel's mother, says she is glad her son decided to spend his time pursuing a good education...
Despite the age differences, Develin says he is glad he made the decision to come to Harvard...