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When President Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, returned to Mother Harvard to accept an honorary doctorate in 1902, he bellowed
'Theodore Rex' Speaks Loudly
When President Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, returned to Mother Harvard to accept an honorary doctorate in 1902, he bellowed
Nobel Prize Winner's Newest: 'Half A Life'
In Paul Theroux’s memoir of his friendship with V.S. Naipaul, Naipaul hisses a typically vain slur at the Nobel Prize
The New American Way: Only Food And Guns
By GRAEME C.A. WOOD CRIMSON STAFF WRITER It would be too easy to write off Canada as just another country
Sontag's Critical Blandness
Is Susan Sontag the only critic left who still cares about high culture? It’s been almost 40 years since “Against
The Profane Appeal
"Politics," said Frank Zappa, "is the entertainment branch of industry.'' Much as I prefer to avoid quoting the artist behind
Nachtwey Shoots the Dead
The war photographer Robert Capa distilled the secret of his craft into one sentence: "If your pictures aren't good enough,
A World On the Other Side of the Lethe
It is, as Dan Quayle famously reminded us, a terrible thing to lose one's mind. But in Margot Livesey's disappointing
Smoke Bluntly Gets in Your Face
Smoke Bluntly Gets in Your Face By GRAEME WOOD CONTRIBUTING WRITER There is a strong case to made, based on
Rembrandt in Eyes of Beholder
Rembrandt left behind more self-portraits than any artist before or since. With his new book Rembrandt's Eyes, historian Simon Schama