Spotlight: Levine’s songs are simultaneously rooted firmly in a narrative folk tradition and unlike anything you’ve heard. Her voice is both delicate and robust, and her poetic lyrics are worldly without being world-weary, and candid without being cynical.
Derek Bok is both sequel and prequel to Larry Summers in his position as interim president of Harvard while the search for a permanent replacement is underway. He's in the limelight this week for Harvard's decision to relinquish early admission to the College, a plan pushed by Dean of Admissions William Fitzsimmons and championed by Bok.
Spotlight: If the current state of the Sox has you feeling down, at least there’s Seth Mnookin’s Feeding the Monster, a backstage look at the how and why of the Red Sox’s 2004 ascent to victory. The team authorities were so taken with Mnookin that they permitted him unfettered access to players and owners alike, complete with “a desk at Fenway and an electronic passkey that opened almost every door in the park.”
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