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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...experience them.”Naipaul explores the effects of policies such as Tanzanian dictator Julius Nyerere’s “ujamaa” on the ground. He writes with pitiless, unflinching accuracy and cynicism, never failing to completely evoke the abject poverty and horrors that he witnesses. This relentless honesty earned him accusations of racism in his lifetime and has ensured that the book remains relatively obscure, its truths too uncomfortable for the self-selecting blindness of a West devoted to political correctness first and foremost. In truth, Naipaul is not a racist, nor any kind...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Naipaul Caught South of Fame | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

Shaq's Twitter Essay i like twitter because its a way for me to talk directly wit everyone. some people call me a celebrity but im just a person who happens to be on tv. i can tweet from anywhere n its quick. i like to hear what everyone is sayin. specially bout my sho, lol. i wish i had time to respond to more people on twitter. some days i just listen n dont tweet. people think im not there, but im always listenin. im about entertainment and makin people laugh. i like to invent games like twitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaquille O'Neal vs. Joel Stein on Twitter | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...often adhered to the memory in the way that the works she studied remained indelible after her own analysis. The late professor of law and psychiatry in society at Harvard knew how to both speak with careful hesitation and opinionate with force, yielding a hard-to-forget intelligence and wit, according to Professor of English Werner Sollors. He remembered watching his close friend and colleague respond to a comment made during one of her lectures: “She nodded very strongly, and said, ‘I agree completely with the opposite of what you’re arguing...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Literary Luminary Passes Away | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...always been well-known and respected for her tremendous literary knowledge across all genres,” said former Crimson President Erica K. Jalli ’05. “She was a standout talent in our Crimson guard, combining dry wit with a highly cerebral style...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alum Named New Yorker’s Managing Editor | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...Thus the weight of two unrealized lives dropped onto Robert's shoulders. He added a deeper dimension: a mission of compassion to go along with the steel and the wit and the will to win. And then, with a gunshot in a Los Angeles hotel, everything fell to Ted - the youngest, the mama's boy, the slipstreamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ted Kennedy: Bringing the Myth Down to Earth | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

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