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...meeting was marked by lighthearted banter from Bok that was in contrast with, and sometimes in reference to, last year’s tense showdowns between professors and then-University President Lawrence H. Summers...
Dinners with the faculty in Victorian manors, bearded men in smoking jackets, pretentious banter over sherry carts—you won’t find any of these august fixtures in the Philosophy concentration. (There’s always the Divinity School and the Society of Fellows for that.) What you will find—in typical Harvard fashion—is a motley assortment of young and old minds passionately interested in what they do and, perhaps, a little out of step with the rest of the university. Even basic intellectual expression in the Philosophy department offers unique challenges...
...Rochelle last month, they discussed the sort of topics that only a true policy wonk could love. Does there need to be "a new equilibrium between labor and capital"? Is Latin America "the new horizon of socialism"? [an error occurred while processing this directive] Behind the high-toned banter, however, lay a visceral political yearning. France's left has not held the nation's presidency since 1995, and it is hungry for power. It might be thought odd, then, that the person who has the strongest chance of winning the top office in next May's presidential election didn...
...fourth place, you'll try anything--twice--and NBC and producers insist that Studio 60 is about not SNL but a fictional lame sketch show. Studio 60 is from West Wing producers Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme, and the show's style is West Coast Wing: the same banter, high-pressure setting and speechiness. But Hollywood-insider stories are a notoriously tough sell to big TV audiences, which may have a hard time granting censors and ratings wars the same earnest dramatic weight as terrorists and shooting wars. What may interest viewers more are the show's real-life parallels...
...This banter is par for the course for a Northern California dinner party. And yes, it’s wine talk. I grew up talking like that for 18 years of my life...