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...best friends are those who can finish your sentences and predict when you’ll need a shoulder to cry on. But there is a fine line between being a good friend and becoming a burden who doesn’t understand personal boundaries. In “The Soul Thief,” an eerily provocative and creative work of fiction, Charles Baxter explores the nature of relationships and identity while commenting on the modern American experience. Ambiguity and contingency mediate the relationships in “The Soul Thief,” making it difficult to separate...
...after all, is unsettlingly close to the real.And that, ultimately, is what makes these fictional and absurd monsters so indelible. Within the pages of Bolaño’s faux-encyclopedia, they become sympathetic, conflicted, troubled, and strangely believable; they become, in short, real human beings whom we understand as much as we despise and whom we like as much as we fear. And that’s something you can’t get from Wikipedia.—Staff Writer Patrick R. Chesnut can be reached at pchesnut@fas.harvard.edu...
...premiered on the History Channel in 2000. Galison’s research on the H-bomb, which was built clandestinely, sparked his general interest in governmental secrecy. “I began to wonder, when people censor documents and things they’ve said, what do they understand as being necessary to stop the movement of knowledge around the world?” he says.Galison and Moss met at Harvard, where they began teaching a class together, History of Science 152: “Filming Science,” in which students create short films on scientific and technological...
...economics professor at Dartmouth College. The survey, conducted by the global market research firm TNS, asked 1,000 Americans about credit card debt. Over 64 percent of respondents could not correctly estimate how their interest would compound over time. The majority of people also said they did not understand minimum payments, and few could determine the different financial consequences between paying monthly installments or a lump sum. The results also revealed that one in four of those surveyed said they had too much debt. “This is a result that over and over surprises...
...welcome the Crimson’s thoughtful challenge to the Government Department thrown out in their piece, “A New Course for Government” (editorial, Feb. 7). We understand that students may be discovering smaller concentrations outside the social sciences, and we applaud these adventures—though we continue to believe that no study is more important or more riveting than the study of politics! We believe that we have a complement of stellar teachers, second to none. Students agree—enrollments in our courses are high and growing. As your editorial points out, however...