Wed, Jan 23, 2008, 3:04am
Sexist graffiti was found on the message boards of two sixth-floor residents in Barnard’s Hewitt Hall Monday morning.
Tue, Jan 22, 2008, 10:34pm
The title of the anthology My Mistress’ Sparrow is Dead may be mystifying, but author Jeffrey Eugenides, in his introduction, reminds us that the most famous dead sparrow in literature belonged to Clodia—a.k.a Lesbia—the lover of Catullus.
Tue, Jan 22, 2008, 10:13pm
In 1942, Samuel Beckett fled Paris with his future wife just hours ahead of a Gestapo raid on their apartment. They traveled by foot across the French countryside, eventually hiding in the tiny village of Roussillon near Avignon.
Tue, Jan 22, 2008, 10:04pm
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Baze v. Rees, a Kentucky case challenging current practices regarding lethal injection—the modality of death in almost all of the 38 states that allow capital punishment.
