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June 10, 2008

rousing rowling

A transcript of J.K. Rowling's remarks to graduating Harvard students on the occasion of the University's 357th Commencement.

While I've never been able to get into the Harry Potter books, perhaps due to a basic indifference toward most fantasy literature on my part, I've come to appreciate the author herself via various anecdotes, interviews and commentaries over the years. She generally comes across as level-headed and sensible as her work is fanciful and free-spirited.

June 20, 2007

but that's the only reason i went to penn

"A quarter-century ago, U.S. Snooze, as it was once known, devised a brilliant marketing strategy to escape its own somnolent reputation as the reading matter of choice in mid-western dental waiting rooms: it would become the premier ranker of the reputations of the nation's colleges and universities." Oh snap!