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...dull roar surrounding the recent release of “21”, based on Ben Mezrich’s (already not-quite-true) account of MIT’s card-counting Blackjack Team. Based on the trailer alone, one can tell the production team knows well mainstream America??s unflagging yen for aesthetically pleasing Caucasians cavorting in shiny cities and beating all odds (Ocean’s 11 through 16, would you stand up please...
...fastest growing markets will take center stage this Saturday as Harvard Business School hosts its 10th annual Latin American Conference. The conference, hosted by the Club Latinoamericano at the Business School, will feature eight panel discussions with elite Latin American business leaders. The panels will focus on Latin America??s presence in fields like energy, real estate, and private equity, while also addressing the current macroeconomic status of the region. Alejandro Rocha, an MBA candidate and one of two co-chairs for the conference, cited a number of reasons for hosting the event, including a feeling that many...
...there is no god / or we’d all be lost,” perhaps a clever articulation of the sentiment, but ultimately a somewhat superficial analysis of the problem of evil. Similarly, her examination of the rich never proceeds beyond their stinginess, and her look at America??s treatment of Native Americans never emerges from simply assigning blame. These conclusions may be true, but they fail to merit the project of the poem.Beyond her polemics, Paley’s plainspoken nature reveals a subtle sense of humor. In “I Met a Seducer...
...Angels in America?? author Tony Kushner opened the Tanner Lectures on Human Values last night with a rapid-fire monologue by a character named Tony Kushner—a neurotic writer completely unprepared to give a speech “at—you should pardon the expression—Harvard.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s apologies drew laughter at every line from a Lowell Lecture Hall audience of more than 250, including University President Drew G. Faust. It was a slyly appropriate opening to a speech entitled “Fiction...
...other hand, Republican nominee John McCain’s “Service to America?? biography tour—effectively an attempt to kill time until the fall—has been downright tedious. His well-worn personality parade pales in comparison to the current mood of cliffhanger ambiguity that still hangs over the Democratic nomination. Suddenly, what has often been an automatic nomination process has been ignited with uncertainty and thus interest. The theatrical element to Obama and Clinton’s tussle has generated public enthusiasm at a fever pitch, generating far more media coverage...