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...federal government may be hell-bent on preventing people under 21 from consuming alcohol, but Harvard isn't jumping on the bandwagon. College administrators say they designed the alcohol policy because they had to bring Harvard into compliance with the law, not because they had an overwhelming desire to cut down on undergraduate drinking. And officials call the policy a success, despite the fact that the campus is not notably drier...
...comers' neomodern bent is ironic, given who advised MacNair in selecting the final 40: Philip Johnson and Robert A.M. Stern. Grandmaster Johnson, 80, is the most notorious ex-modernist in the world; Stern, a sort of architectural Ralph Lauren, specializes in exactly the sort of direct 19th century-style borrowing that his younger peers are eschewing. This year's "40 Under 40" honors list is the third that Stern, 47, has helped compile (and the first of the three on which he has not appeared). Being named is no guarantee of a successful career, obviously, but a remarkable number...
...moral and geographical dividing line. Above them, in 18th century Paraguay, live the Guarani Indians, which the movie asks us to believe were converted to Christianity by Jesuit missionaries without damage to their Rousseauean innocence. Below the falls lies an unpleasant civilization, composed of Spanish and Portuguese colonists bent on enslaving the Indians if they can drive out their priestly protectors...
...history of American sports literature. Responding to Vermeule's allegation, he offered another interpretation. He opined that God could just as easily have permitted Yaz to double off the "Green Monster" but that, at the crucial moment of Gossage's last pitch, God must have looked away momentarily and bent down to shell a peanut...
...business chores -- for which he demonstrates an acumen far better suited to adult life than their verbal fireworks. The slow ripening of his self- confidence and, therefore, his sexuality provides the play's time line, establishing the passage of nearly two decades. Friedman enacts a troubled homosexual whose bent is not the source of his self-destruction: he insists on confronting, and voicing, life's unpleasant truths, which makes him the most admired and feared member of the circle...