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Kapuscinski, who suffered from cancer for many years, ran out of time before he could write a long-envisioned book on his Polish homeland. But from the apartment he and his pediatrician wife Alicja shared in a working-class district of Warsaw, he pounded out articles and gave interviews right up to his final hospitalization. In contrast to Kapuscinski's astounding output, Herodotus left only The Histories. In its opening passage, the ancient scribbler declares that his purpose in writing - stunningly ambitious for the era - is "to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time." The Histories...
...commencement ticket, that strangers and friends alike will be entrapped by our requests to snap group photos, and that the bet of the week is about whether my mom actually bought a full page ad in this issue of the Crimson (I don’t know as I write this). My family, unencumbered. That’s rolling “ten-deep” at home, where I come from...
...found that I could write 24 pages in under 24 hours and still do well. I learned that a lot of the education you get at college happens outside the classroom. And I learned how to deal with failure, even if most Harvard students don’t understand the meaning of that word until reaching adulthood...
...weekly trips to the same church. Lee realized that he was the same thoughtful junior who had e-mailed her the article earlier.One incident in particular became significant to the pair. Leaving the T together after church, the friends encountered two homeless men, one of whom offered to write a poem in return for change. “Tell me the most amazing thing that’s ever happened to you and I’ll write a poem about that,” the man said. Lee’s response deeply impressed Huang. “Well...
...happens, oh, once a week to each of us who post on Swampland (Karen Tumulty, Jay Carney and Ana Marie Cox are the others). A reasonable reader might ask, Why are the left-wing bloggers attacking you? Aren't you pretty tough on the Bush Administration? Didn't you write a few months ago that George W. Bush would be remembered as one of the worst Presidents in history? And why on earth does any of this matter...