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Highlight Reel: 1. On Woody Allen's Annie Hall: "The film is full of jokes and funny observations. It has great scenes. But it is not a story or a drama. It is a comic's sad monologue filled out to the dimensions of a movie (93 minutes) in which the impenetrable, impregnable self-regard of Alvy fends off a delightful woman. This is not quite feminism. Indeed, it is a kind of celebration of male infantilism (otherwise known as the movies...
...James, but at the same time you want to take his characters by the shoulders and shake them and say, “Wake up!” THC: Is there anything that someone said to you about writing that really stuck with you all these years?MR: [James Allen McPherson, who teaches at the University of Iowa,] was the first person who really pushed me to think about not just how you write, or the elements of creative writing, but also why you do it. What are you trying to accomplish by writing whatever is possessing...
...foul-mouthed, warrior-author and recent convert from Reaganite to renegade Democrat—is widely popular among the heavy-drinking, heavy-praying Scots-Irish who populate the southwestern hill country. But even he barely defeated the disgustingly stupid, backyard-barbeque bigot George “Macaca” Allen in 2006, amid widespread discontent with the Bush Administration’s handling of the economy and Iraq. And a Harvard-educated, cerebral crypto-Muslim is a much harder sell, especially one with an ethnically dubious name...
...team, it seems that far fewer NFL fans generally have shown interest in the Patriots this season. With stories like these, one can only imagine the feelings of loss that Celtics fans would harbor if Kevin Garnett packed his bags for Brussels, or what Nuggets fans would do if Allen Iverson skipped out to Sicily...
...Street job opportunities in limbo, Harvard Business School’s prospective masters of the universe may find that they’d rather be champions of their community—and they’d be in luck.Professors V. Kasturi “Kash” Rangan and Allen S. Grossman have been leading the Business School’s increased focus on social entrepreneurship, applying their extensive experience in the field to help HBS students use their business acumen to serve their communities and the world.ENGINEERING AN ENLIGHTENED ENTERPRISERangan, one of the two faculty co-chairs...