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...Lifestyles of the Rich We were pleased to see our book, Searching for Mary Poppins: Women Write About the Intense Relationships Between Mothers and Nannies, mentioned in Po Bronson's Essay "Barbie to Baby Einstein: Get Over It" [Oct. 9]. Bronson says our book, however, has a small place because "only 1 in 20 kids in the U.S. will ever be cared for by a nanny." If this book ends up being important to almost 4 million boys and girls, what's wrong with that? Plus you would have to add their parents to that number, as well as their...
...post-Tiananmen literary diaspora. Others include best-selling novelists like Ha Jin (Waiting) and Ma Jian (Red Dust), as well as newcomers such as Da Chen (whose Brothers came out in September). Like many of the American writers who decamped to Europe in the last century, these transplants write largely about their homeland. The Internet, satellite television and eased travel restrictions keep them abreast of life in China, but distance can give them a fresh perspective - and freedom to say things unwelcome in Beijing. The Uninvited will not get Yan invited to many Beijing banquets. Dan Dong and his wife...
...China is “particularly noteworthy” because enrollment fell 8 percent in 2004, and only increased 3 percent in 2005, according to the report. Harvard was one of the schools that saw a drop in applications from Chinese students after Sept. 11, prompting Summers to write a letter to then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge ’67 protesting tightened visa policies. The drop in foreign applications to graduate programs at Harvard posed “a very serious problem for our students, for the University and, ultimately, for the United States,” Summers...
According to Kay, few professors have time to catch students who plagiarize if they are focused on “helping students learn to write more effectively and giving them constructive feedback...
...monogamous, loving relationships. "Calling it porn totally misses the point," she says. She thinks politicians in both races are skirting real policy issues by talking about sex scenes. If they don't like a book, they should put it down, she says. "Fiction is fiction," Trapp says. "You can write about murder in your book-that doesn't make you a murderer...