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Continuing Education October 2010

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By BOSTON PHOENIX CONTRIBUTORS | October 18, 2010

The perils of self improvement
With a new decade comes dubious planning for self-betterment and the optimistic promise of a fresh start. However, even the best of intentions have the potential to go awry, and seemingly innocuous continuing-education courses are no exception.
The New 3 R's
A Message From the Office of Devolution
Words around town
“Every writer I know has trouble writing,” said Joseph Heller. Let that serve as comfort.
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The perils of self improvement
With a new decade comes dubious planning for self-betterment and the optimistic promise of a fresh start. However, even the best of intentions have the potential to go awry, and seemingly innocuous continuing-education courses are no exception.
The New 3 R's
A Message From the Office of Devolution
Words around town
“Every writer I know has trouble writing,” said Joseph Heller. Let that serve as comfort.
How To Be Good at the Future
One of these days, when the Doc Brown and McFly jokes dry up, you'll have no choice but to start thinking seriously about the future. Not just tomorrow, and the day after, but the next several hundred years, since lifespans are on track to skyrocket.
Providence Student Survival Guide: List of lists
It's back-to-campus time. You've got shopping lists, book lists, syllabi, class rosters, and Facebook. Who would possibly think you could handle more lists? We would, that's who.
Review: My Afternoons with Margueritte
European cinema doesn't have as many sure-fire formulas as Hollywood, but the one described, I think, by Pauline Kael as the "lonely child, clean old man" scenario has long endured.
First day of lit class
Back to the grind.
Review: Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
Not many these days are familiar with Aleichem's own story, or his other work, or his impact on Jewish culture and literature in general.
Are Rhode Islanders finally ready to recognize Providence-born H.P. Lovecraft's legacy as a horror writing hero?
Brett Rutherford was walking down College Street on an overcast day in the late 1990s when a car with Oregon license plates pulled up next to him.
A future less dour
Neal Stephenson's novels have been called everything from science fiction to postcyberpunk.
Brown bags it
Republican Senator Scott Brown's vote to allow the interest on college loans to double illustrates perfectly why Brown is a clever politician, but a rotten senator.
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