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...Yeah, except Humbert is arch, as well as being an assh---. Nabokov takes it one step further. I mean, the sexual bribes chapter, quite late on, begins with the sentence, "I am now faced with the distasteful task of recording a definite drop in Lolita's morals." That compounds the cruelty, because he's using it as the butt of his wit. So he's really complicatedly awful. It all works absolutely brilliantly. But my character's a bit more straightforward than that...
...added that unearthing the roots of binge eating is an arduous task because it is unclear how environment and genetics factor into the disorder...
...Title II,” which took place in December. The initiative, which passed by an overwhelming 88.3 percent, calls upon the Harvard administration to reduce the University’s greenhouse gas emissions by 11 percent below its 1990 levels by the year 2020. According to Greeney, a task force of students and administrators is now being assembled to examine the feasibility of such a reduction. The task force is slated to hold its first meeting within the next two weeks. One priority of the EAC, according to Greeney, will be to make the buildings in Harvard?...
From the rehabilitation camp where he was weaned off drugs and violence (not an easy task; Beah calls the workers there "truly heroic"), the former soldier went to live with an uncle. But the civil war was not over, and his uncle died, so Beah, who had visited New York City in 1996 as a guest of the U.N., eventually was adopted by a woman he met then. He went to school and college. And now, in one of those American-dreamlike turns, he's going on a 10-city book tour sponsored by Starbucks...
Last week, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) reached a milestone. In blunt and forceful language, a new report prepared by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development acknowledges what students have been saying for years: Harvard has a pedagogy problem. The 86-page report recommends 18 concrete and sensible strategies for the improvement of teaching at Harvard, but if the report is to make more than a mere dent, its proposals must be brought to fruition. We hope that the Faculty, the new president, and the new dean of the Faculty will fast-track the implementation...