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...only the carefully selected few get to play with the toys—the kind of men and women who dive into the burning building instead of dousing it from afar...
...Boston’s new CharlieCards and CharlieTickets offer a mysterious allure all their own, especially to legions of college students who frequently come to the Hub from afar...
With Crimson editors scattered across the globe this summer, we will be not be publishing our regular slate of editorials. Instead, we have invited editors to submit summer postcards from afar. We hope they will give you a flavor of the wide range of the jobs, internships, activities, and experiences that characterize Crimson editors’ summers, while at the same time providing a glimpse of the issues and opinions that are moving and animating our staff in every corner of the world...
...takes a gorgeous bright Sunday like this one to remind movie people visiting from afar that Cannes has a life outside the Film Festival. It is a resort town of 70,000 people, most of whom live nowhere near the beach. But on lovely weekends, the locals, many of them as beautiful as movie stars, come down from the hills for a family stroll on the seaside Croisette. They pack the public beaches to get an early start on their suntans. And as a splendid May afternoon wanes and time nears for the Film Festival's first evening show...
...conclusion is disappointing because Vargas Llosa—who carries a Spanish passport and resides in northern California—designs a utopian master plan from afar, instead of clearly delineating the practical steps toward progress that Latin America so desperately needs. The theoretical nature of his proposals implies a lack of urgency that contrasts sharply with the book’s bleak depiction of the continent’s health...