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...home from cerebellar ataxia, according to her brother Bruce Pollack-Johnson. She was 61. Eight years ago, the acclaimed literary critic and translator had been diagnosed with the rare degenerative condition with effects similar to multiple sclerosis that made it difficult for her to speak and walk. But Johnson??who taught at Harvard for 25 years—continued to advise dissertations and produce scholarly works years after her diagnosis, according to Pollack-Johnson. “Her productivity was incredible...The blessing was that her mind was always as sharp as a tack until the very...
...avoid unnecessary illness”—a decision coming with the “guidance of the Boston Public Health commission.” The 10th grade level MCAS math tests and all AP exams scheduled for this week have been postponed to next week, according to Johnson??s letter. Additionally, the school’s junior prom, which was scheduled for this Friday, has been postponed “indefinitely,” said BLS senior Gloria T. Chin. She added that the seniors were supposed to end school this Friday, but they will...
...would kneel again and drink.”Among prose stylists, Denis Johnson has few living equals. His finest moments bristle with beauty and potential; words blossom inward toward the enigmatic center of the story, disclosing possibility rather than meaning. Sentences line the pages like bombs waiting to detonate. Johnson??s economy is the economy of Hemingway, if Hemingway was sleepwalking or under hypnosis. The passage above, from Johnson??s latest novel, “Nobody Move,” glimpses these heights. It’s the only one.In 2007, Johnson received the National Book...
...running the newly learned drills as if she had known them for years.“It’s not Xs and Os, it’s psychology,” Delaney-Smith explained. “I was fooling a lot of people early.” Johnson??s film tracks Delaney-Smith’s career from her beginnings as the head coach at Westwood (Mass.) High School and her tireless support of Title IX policies, to her success at the helm of Harvard’s program—a program that, under Delaney...
...editor, grounded out to end the inning.Vertovez pitched strongly through the first three frames, not allowing a runner past second base, but Columbia broke the scoreless tie in the fourth.Junior Dani Pineda led off the inning for the Lions with a single to right field and came home on Johnson??s bomb. Freshman Julia Moore came on in the fifth and pitched two innings of scoreless relief, but the Crimson couldn’t string together enough hits to get on the scoreboard. “We wanted to score runs immediately, and when it wasn?...