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...self-sabotage on his mind. “Nobody Move” is the gravitational inverse to a novel like “Tree of Smoke”: a breezy, barely-there venture into the heyday of pulp fiction. The concept actually has a good deal of promise behind it—“Jesus’ Son,” Johnson’s 1992 collection of short stories that is arguably his masterpiece, dwells on the short, ugly lives of a noir-esque cast of junkies and thugs in an abortive urban purgatory. But this book isn?...
...that the acting Dean was unaware of the impending cafe closure and criticized the lack of transparency in the decision making process regarding layoffs. Student activists have recently disputed the notion that the University’s core mission revolves around its educational mission—a central argument behind the administration’s justification for staff layoffs. Laura M. Binger, a third year law student who said Jackson made that claim during the recent meeting with labor activists, expressed her concern over what she views as a distortion of Harvard’s mission. Recent weeks have seen...
...Ironically, though, these backhanded techniques are also a testament to how far democracy has come in Lebanon. In order to influence the election result, Saudi Arabia has had to directly address the citizens of Lebanon. In earlier decades, just a few big backroom deals behind closed doors might have done...
...Those problems were actually the impetus behind the founding of Patheos. The Brunnicks, who come from different Christian faiths, collectively have four small children from previous marriages, and when they wedded, they struggled to find help integrating their beliefs. "Bringing our kids together, deciding what to teach them and how and where to take them for Sunday school - we weren't taking this lightly," says Leo Brunnick. "In your 20s, it's easy to say, 'I'm spiritual, without specific tenets, whatever.' That feels great until you're staring into the eyes of a 2-year-old and realize...
...gone. I thought he should do a spring-break trip for college students in New Orleans to help with the Hurricane Katrina cleanup. His antipoverty work would take him across the country, and I knew that. When he told me that the political action committee was going to have behind-the-scenes videos made of some of these efforts, it didn't seem like that bad an idea, and it certainly didn't occur to me to ask about who was making them. It didn't occur to me that at a fancy hotel in New York, where...