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This month seems to have been designated as a time for lost histories to re-emerge. First we learned of the Gospel of Judas, which sheds new light on the history of early Christianity, and then the fishapod, a pre-historic creature thought to bridge the evolution from fin to...
Last week, we joined the senior class for a final meal in Annenberg Hall while all the freshmen invaded our houses to “meet people” and plan out the next three years of misery. We tried to convince all of the seniors who had transferred since...
I loathe making choices. When shopping, I buy four pairs of shoes, contemplate for a day how they would fit with my wardrobe, and then (reluctantly) return three. My social life often feels like a bad version of “The Dating Game” in which I judge...
When students tell Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism James Wood that they first encountered King Lear at 2:30 in the morning, he knows that something is very wrong. “The text doesn’t speak to them,” he laments. And I...
But despite all the plaudits Massachusetts is getting, don?t expect this kind of plan to become national policy anytime soon. In Washington, there is very little political will to deal with such an enormously complicated issue - one that, as the Clintons learned the hard way in the 1990s, has...