“Americans are in serious intellectual trouble — in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations,” writes Susan Jacoby in an article for the Washington Post of February 17.
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J.K. Rowling to speak at Harvard commencement in June
“J. K. Rowling, author of the world-renowned ‘Harry Potter’ novels, will be the principal speaker during the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard University’s 357th Commencement on June 5, 2008,” says an article on the front page of the Harvard University Gazette of February 7-13, 2008.