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...that's the case then 2 Days in Paris will not be your dish of Pernod. But if a dose of skepticism (see Jack trying to come to grips with rabbit stew) and multilingual frenzy (dealing with a vegan saboteur in a fast food restaurant) does not seem entirely amiss to you, this anti romantic and anti-comic - it's not as funny as Delpy seems to think it is - movie may appeal to the dark side of your immune system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paris Not for Lovers | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

...happened across refuse of the previous year’s Cornel West–Larry Summers feud: a poster that encouraged its onlookers to “Get Uppity on Massa Summers’ Plantation.” And so was born my visceral feeling that something was amiss at Harvard College...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: ‘International’ Education Has Blinkered Students’ Minds | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...stay up for days prior to his medical screening to make the army doctor believe he had some type of disorder.“I had destroyed my nervous system on no sleep, controlled substances and looked like a frightful mess,” he says. Noticing something amiss, the army doctor asked Adams to return for repeated visits. Adams had 15 physicals in total. On this extended regiment of no sleep, Adams recalls a particularly harrowing incident.“I walked out of my house and onto Mass Avenue and [saw] a mass of soldiers coming towards...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Musical Founding Father | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

While eating dinner in his village in southern Sudan one night in 1987, John Bul Dau had a premonition that something was amiss. Several hours later, he awoke to the sound of gunfire and bombs going off as government troops raided his village. Dau, one of the “lost boys” of Sudan, spoke to an audience of about 30 in Harvard Hall last night, telling stories of his flight from war-torn southern Sudan, his travels in East Africa, and his emigration to the United States. The raid that displaced Dau occurred in the midst...

Author: By Charles E. Riggs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Lost Boy’ Shares Life Story | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...thin gruel for an effective presidency. Intellectual passion moral vision, and the ability to recognize and support excellence in other are among the qualities to be most desired in a president of Harvard. A becoming modesty and a sense of humor, if not irony, also will not go amiss. Mere charm we can do without, but humanity and civility are essential. These are the collaborative qualities without which no institution of higher learning, no matter how rich or famous, can flourish. We assume fundamental administrative competence, honesty in matters great and small, and a rightly regulated ambition as essential...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes | Title: Don’t Rush, Get It Right | 2/2/2007 | See Source »

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