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...most poignant force when a sequel to a beloved series is finally unveiled; recall the shrugs and recriminations at the arrival of The Phantom Menace. The Indy franchise never reached the heights of Skywalker mania. It was just (just!) a trilogy that both tapped the innocent vigor of old B-movie serials and turned them into sophisticated thrill machines. Raiders and its progeny were fun without being facetious; they moved with the speed and power of an Indy right hook, relentlessly piling one cool action trope on another. And at their heart was a hero who wore his machismo lightly...
...member group’s new members will be former Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dean Peter T. Ellison, former history department chair Andrew D. Gordon, zoologist Farish A. Jenkins, former earth and planetary science department chair Michael B. McElroy, and former Classics department chair Richard J. Tarrant—throwing the gender balance from eight women and 10 men to six women...
...committee member John M. Sheffield II ’09 wrote in an e-mailed statement. “We’ve seen a glut of revised syllabi in the last few weeks.” Students who were worried that Literature and Arts B-51: “First Nights: Five Performance Premieres” may not be taught again can now rest assured—it will count both toward the Core and Gen Ed’s Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding requirement in Fall 2009. The majority of newly approved classes come from the humanities. Five...
...Some parents have taken to cherry-picking vaccines, leaving out only the shots they believe their children don't need-such as those for chicken pox and hepatitis B-and keeping up with what they see as the life-or-death ones. But that can be a high-stakes game, as Kelly Lacek, a Pennsylvania mother of three, learned. She stopped vaccinating her 2-month-old son Matthew when her chiropractor raised questions about mercury in the shots. Three years later, she came home to find the little boy feverish and gasping for breath. Emergency-room doctors couldn't find...
Aren't there any writers in the world apart from Tom Stoppard? Where are the new Kerouacs and Salingers or Françoise Sagans? Aren't there any poets or painters? Is there only room for media kings, politicians and multimillionaires these days? B. Löfquist, GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN...