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Additional prizes went to Natan J. Leyva '96 for "The Tension Between Rights and Democracy: Rawls and Habermas in Dialogue"; James B. Loeffler '96 for "A Gilgul fun a Nigun: Jewish Musicians in New York, 1881-1945"; Nathan E. Lump '96 for "'Thus there are devils, there are spirits': Genre, Personal Experience, and Belief in Folkloristics and the Words of a Welsh Storyteller"; Elizabeth C. Marlantes '96 for "From the Mud Hut to the Parthenon: Edith Wharton's Search for the Ideal Home"; and James N. Miller '96 for "'Between the Boycotters and the Liftgivers': A Comparative History...
...students elected are Meredith Alexander, Michael I. Gordin and Chimene I. Keitner from Adams; Kyung-Hwa Rhee, Antonio Rodriguez, Jun S. Song, Hisayo M. Suzuki, and Kristen VanAmberg from Cabot; Peter S. Cahn, Bert I. Huang, and Mark Wu from Currier; Natan J. Leyva from Dudley; Bryan M. Hooks and Jessica E. Nord from Dunster; Gregory M. Ku, Joshua M. Sabloff, and Elizabeth A. Urban from Eliot; Thaddeus B. Kousser and Patrick I. Purdon from Kirkland; John D. Heller and Eugenia Lao from Leverett; Swaine L. Chen, Steven A. Engel, and Michael J. Puri from Lowell; Jill A. Corcoran, Anne...
...speed chess, you tell yourself other things. You tell yourself it is a noble game. You tell yourself it was Ben Franklin's favorite pastime while ambassador to France ("I call this my opera," he would say, explaining his absence from the Paris opera). You tell yourself that Natan Sharansky kept his sanity in solitary confinement by playing mental chess against himself ("I always won," he recalls with satisfaction...
...history they hardly even had electricity. Hence the Russian artists satisfy our nostalgia for that lost phoenix of Modernist desire, an art that was both experimental and politically effective. To this day, one can't look at the Constructivist designs for agitprop events -- the red panels of Natan Altman's bold transformation of the huge Palace Square in Leningrad for the first birthday of the October Revolution, or the steel-truss tribune designed by Lissitzky to carry Lenin forward like a high diver over the heads of a crowd -- without a feeling of exhilaration: this, not the bureaucratic and murderous...
Writing last April in the weekly magazine the Jerusalem Report, Natan Sharansky, a former prisoner of conscience in the U.S.S.R. and a leading spokesman for Soviet Jews, complained that "in the existing stagnant economic and political system, there is no place for the enormous energy the immigrants bring with them." Unless Israel develops an "open economy," he warned, the Zionist dream itself will be in jeopardy. Sharansky picked up that theme again in the latest issue of the Report: "Whether this exodus will become a great blessing or a terrible burden for our country depends on how our government meets...