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Seniors who are staying closer to home seem to reflect a renewed appreciation for family and community. "In the '80s and '90s, the older generation had more of an emphasis on remaining independent and autonomous," says Alan Clark, a Santa Monica, Calif., psychologist. "These days, there is more of a feeling among these people to stay connected to family and take an active role in one another's lives...
...Alan Stone, Harvard’s new vice president of government, community and public affairs, told a crowd of local officials at his welcoming reception that he will work to increase Harvard’s “transparency” to the community this year...
Taubman Center Director Alan Altshuler declined to comment on the center’s opinion regarding the trial, and would not say whether or not a potential conviction would lead to efforts to distance the center from the Taubman name...
...Column A and made a handsomely faithful version, with actors smartly cast to type. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and his pals Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) look word-picture perfect. Members of the Hogwarts staff--Dumbledore (Richard Harris), McGonagall (Maggie Smith), Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) and Snape (who else? Alan Rickman, in Hamlet's drab garb)--have the requisite majesty or malevolence. The special effects are spiffy too. The Golden Snitch has a mischievous mind of its own, and that three-headed boar could guard bin Laden's cave...
...series modeled on Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (Alan Dershowitz has penned a Letters to a Young Lawyer) Hitchens dispenses advice on how to batter away at the prevailing hypocrisies of our day by living in a state—or rather, an activity—of principled opposition. Luckily, Hitchens has at least enough of a sense of humor to appreciate the condescending silliness that encircles this idea. “I myself hope to live long enough to graduate, from being a ‘bad boy?...