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...don’t rival the garish inhabitants of the Pleeblands. Even Ren complains of her lackluster surroundings. “The street kids—the pleebrats—were hardly rich, but they were glittery… I envied their gaudy freedom.”Atwood is better at inventing things than at setting them in motion and, at times, her plot does not live up to her creations. The pacing is uneven. Ren and Toby each spend much of the novel isolated from the rest of the world, so often there’s more memory than...
...Sciences this year by 8 percent and will cut at least another 8 percent the following year, though FAS Dean Michael D. Smith is expecting 12 percent. If Dean Smith is right, that amounts to a 19 percent cut spread out over two years—not much better than the UC system's 20 percent cut for this year...
...Shabbat? Does being Jewish mean feeling proud when I see someone Jewish on TV?” one student queried. For many, the answer was social activism. “To me, it’s all about social justice. It’s about making the world a better place when I leave it than it was when I found it,” said Neil D. Spears, a student in the Graduate School of Education. Lilli R. Margolin ’11, who was adopted from Korea and raised by a Jewish family, said that when...
...unoriginal. Its cloyingly romantic lyrics verge dangerously towards the cliché: “you mean the world to me but you’ll never know.” Mika’s ability to craft a slow song that does not rely on catchy choruses is much better showcased in “By The Time,” a collaboration with Grammy-nominated English singer Imogen Heap and the album’s true standout. Heap’s ethereal vocals blend beautifully with Mika’s falsetto to lend a hypnotizing effect...
...inspire a 2005 sequel, with another in the works. In his latest film, “Paris,” Klapisch squanders both his own considerable skill and creativity and that of the majority of his cast on a paean to the city that borrows shamelessly from other, better movies—the plot of “Rear Window,” the ensemble structure of “Magnolia,” and the underlying philosophy of “Amélie.” “Paris” follows the tribulations of Pierre (Romain...