Professors are like their worst students

March 1, 2020
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There is a place in hell where bad people go. In this place they are forced to watch PowerPoint presentations. But in the special place for the really bad people, a devil doesn’t just show the slides but reads them aloud, every word. Not long ago I attended a typical academic conference. Several dozen professors […]

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New Yorker’s Osnos: Good writing flows from deep reporting

October 30, 2012
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Versión en español aquí. New Yorker writer Evan Osnos is as fine a storyteller in person as he is in print. Tsinghua University journalism students left their texting thumbs idle Oct. 24 as he told how he profiled a former barber named Siu Yun Ping, who won close to $100 million at baccarat in Macau. Osnos […]

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