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...Well, I rely on place a lot. My whole first book was “California,” and focused on beach communities and the transient lives there. My novella was actually set in a beach community too. I was urging students that I have here to think about place in terms of what happens in a certain place that doesn’t happen somewhere else, or anywhere else. And that’s how I look at place in fiction. It always interests me that what happens in one place doesn’t happen somewhere else...
...ongoing historical debate over the personal merits of Christopher Columbus is reserved for another time and place. For now, consider that many figures in American history are remembered for their accomplishments rather than their participation in the follies of their respective eras. We honor George Washington no less on Presidents’ Day because he owned slaves, but rather we honor him as the father of our country. To sacrifice the reputation, dignity, and heroism of a visionary man as a “symbol” for the worst excesses committed by colonial governments is both unfair and obtuse...
...ways. The Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting doles out money and praise to undergraduates in order to, in their words, “recognize and encourage book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard.” Fifteen Minutes is tickled by this quaint and lucrative award (first place is $1,500), and, like Noah M. Silver ’10, we yearn to see our collection on display in Lamont. And so, Visiting Committee, FM humbly presents its own collection of 15 books and publications...
...with a friend and we cycled from Kathmandu up into the Himalyas, and it was just stunning,” Munoz says. “It was just the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen...
...bust was “pretty much zero,” which meant that he would win in the long run. And it’s safe to say that he has: at the 2009 World Series, Hawrilenko won more than a million dollars when he came in first place at an event. He took $100,688 at yet another one. But these are just incidental wins in a longer stream of acquisitions...