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When my editor asked me to write an article for the What's Next issue, I panicked. I foresaw long hours in laboratories trying to interpret the jargon of scientists finding new ways to map the brain, implant RFID chips in my skin or create a tofu that fails in its attempt to taste like yet another kind of meat. What, I pondered, would be the easiest subject I could tackle? What never changes? The answer suddenly seemed obvious: What's Next ... with the Amish. How hard could that be? I could report and write the piece while watching television...
...peasant rights with China's leading legal scholars. "I realized then that I could use the Village Committee Organizing Law to impeach my village chief," Lu recalls. Eleven months later he did just that, and even won a seat on his "township people's congress" as an independent write-in candidate...
...emergency room with a flu that had become pneumonia, and then slipped into septic shock. These two events and their aftermath are the primary focus of the book.Early on in “Magical Thinking,” Didion declares that “the way I write is who I am, or have become,” and this is indeed carried out in the fractured, meandering style of her prose. Passage of time appears to hang on the end of a bungee cord: snaking back through memories, or dragging through each present day as it comes, but always...
...fixtures remain outwardly ambivalent about their intentions for running, a dearth of experienced potential candidates means that the field will be relatively limited this December no matter what. Enter the token outsider: Connor C. Wilson ’07, who won the Adams House representative election through a spirited write-in campaign two weeks ago. Wilson served as the campaign manager to last year’s unexpectedly successful outsider/insider ticket of Tracy “Ty” Moore ’06 and Ian W. Nichols ’06. When he won in Adams this year...
...unsuccessful CLC events last semester. CONNOR C. WILSON ’07: Wilson served as campaign manager for last year’s insider/outsider ticket led by Tracy “Ty” Moore ‘06. Wilson placed first in the Adams House race as a write-in candidate this semester, and says he hopes to institute reforms from the inside as a member of FiCom...