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...move to�Sunday nights has�sent the Washington drama's poll, er, ratings numbers tumbling--ironically, just as it's become complex and exciting. In its high-rated days, the show was an eloquent but simplistic fantasy. The presidential race between Matt Santos (Jimmy Smits) and Arnold Vinick (Alan Alda) has given it what it always lacked: a nuanced conflict between two flawed but empathetic opponents. (The Bartlet White House story lines seem like a distraction now.) Santos and Vinick square off for a live debate on Nov. 6--just in time for you to rejoin this political party...
...interesting," says Alan Jacobs, author of The Narnian (HarperSanFrancisco), a new Lewis biography, "that 60 years later, nobody has really turned up." Lewis, whose day job was Oxford medievalist, did eventually get around to other work, including seven children's books about a place called Narnia. Ninety-five million Narnia books have been sold since then, and as Disney begins test screenings for its December release of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, based on the series' first volume, the septet is back near the top of the children's best-seller lists...
...relationship relative to each student’s work and knew all the issues of every project in the class. We always found Jerzy to be delightful, original and in the end, quite amusing.”Another one-time student of Soltan’s at the GSD, Alan S. Chimacoff, also an architect and designer and professor of architecture at Princeton, said he came to Harvard because of a previous meeting with Soltan that had “enchanted” him. He agreed that studying under Soltan had been a unique experience.“When [professors...
...rock/metal trio comes to The Middle East highly praised for its second release “The Wreck of the Minot.” Also playing that night are Cocked n’ Loaded, The Humanoids, and That Handsome Devil. 18+. The Middle East Upstairs. 9 p.m. $9. (CEJ)Alan Hollingshurst. The winner of the 2004 Booker Prize reads from “The Line of Beauty,” his novel about Thatcher-era London. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street. 6 p.m. Free tickets are required and can be picked up at the Harvard Book Store information desk...
...felt that by spotlighting them and telling their stories they might serve as examples to others.” CPL selected a group of 35 judges, themselves leaders in both the private and public domain, to winnow down an original list of 300 nominees. One of the judges, Alan A. Khazei ’83, said they were looking for people who helped develop other leaders and made unique contributions in their fields. “You don’t have to be a household name to be an outstanding leader,” Khazei said. Harvard?...