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...particular achievement of The World is to flesh out the two potent forces that Naipaul has often seemed to repress: women and Trinidad, where he grew up. The abstemious Brahmin vegetarian who looked away from the movie screen whenever a kissing scene was shown, even after his marriage, is here revealed as a writer of wildly sensual letters whose mistress of 24 years called him "the Lion King" and drew sketches of his manhood in all its naked glory. That did not stop him from seeing her through three abortions and being, in his alarming words, "very violent with...
...it’s a really great landscape to develop any work. Especially in the early days of “Rolling Stone,” it was such a raw, young canvas and no one there ever told me what to do, so we sort of learned and grew up together. I don’t think I would still be working for magazines if I didn’t believe you could break through and do things that were really wonderful. But, that being said, magazines are working with other people, and there’s an editor...
...future be the same if we were all submerged underwater? Were they really related, and if so, why was one so much uglier than the others? I was filled with both questions and hate.But the more and more I was forced to hear these songs, the more I grew to like them, in some sort of ironic way. The Jonases had catchy songs. 66.6 percent of them were cute. And most importantly, their lyrics were great. They wanted to “battle dance against Hanson.” Who doesn’t? They informed us that...
...next saw Obama at his final stop before Super Tuesday in Boston, and then again at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. With each successive Obama-sighting, the crowds grew larger. The 80,000-person crowd that packed the bleachers at Invesco Field was a far cry from the small gathering in the Birmingham living room the summer before...
...taking action. On November 18, the day after he saw the final exam schedule, Jason Y. Shah ’11 formed the Facebook group “Petition for Make-Ups of Harvard College Exams on Inauguration Day 2009,” and within a week, the group grew to over 250 members. That day, working with Shah, Tanuj D. Parikh ’09 created an online petition of the same name. The petition now has almost 600 electronic signatures. In addition to the Facebook group and the petition, Shah and Parikh have been collaborating with other students...