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...while this feel-good democratization is politically correct, it fails in practice. Populist American optimism tends to cut the legs out from beneath potent terms like “genius”; the harsh truth is that not everyone is capable of producing works of incredible beauty or sublimity. In the Coen brothers’ 1991 movie “Barton Fink,” a studio boss dresses down his star scripter: “You think you’re the only writer who can give me that Barton Fink feeling? I got 20 writers under contract that...
Flaherty came in second place with about a quarter, and City Councilor Sam Yoon, Boston’s first Asian-American elected official and the only Asian-American ever to run for public office in the City, finished third with approximately 20 percent of the vote. Real estate developer Kevin McCrea finished last...
Students heading to Harvard Hillel tomorrow may find themselves on national TV—in Korea. Of all visitors to campus, the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) will be in town tomorrow to film a roundtable discussion at Hillel in which students share their experiences as American Jewish college students with Korea’s foremost public television station, which is creating a documentary on Jewish life in America...
...still end up in debt due to medical costs. “Approximately two-thirds of people who [experienced] home foreclosure had medical insurance,” he said. Selig discussed the conflict between the interests of the health insurance industry and the financial well-being of the average American. “Healthcare doesn’t follow neat ideologies,” Robertson said, noting that he participated in the panel because he feels that some aspects of the debate are being ignored. Organized by The Petrie-Flom Center at HLS, which is dedicated to interdisciplinary research...
...surprise if the Taliban decided to mount a plot against targets in the U.S. "There are probably people [in the Taliban] who are saying, 'To get rid of the U.S., it's not enough to fight them here,' " says Lawrence Korb, a national-security expert at the Center for American Progress. After all, he points out, al-Qaeda's rationale for attacks on the U.S. was "to get us out of Saudi Arabia...