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...stricken region where they have been working and playing for generations, and with which they feel a strong bond. They've pledged tens of millions of euros, millions of doses of drugs, and the people and equipment needed to reconstruct damaged infrastructure. On Dec. 30, Christopher Bland, chairman of the U.K. telecommunications group BT, began phoning top executives at Britain's 20 largest companies to urge them to donate to the relief effort, but he soon gave up because so many of those he called had already made large pledges. "I think it's an unprecedented response in terms...
...position she partly repudiated two years ago in another book, Regarding the Pain of Others. In fact, re-examining old positions was a lifelong habit. In 1968, after a trip to Hanoi, she produced an essay that struggled to approve the bland totalitarianism of the North Vietnamese leadership. But 14 years later she was announcing that communism was "fascism with a human face," a statement that she had the courage to make before a left-wing crowd. Courage was never a problem for her. In the days right after 9/11 she created an uproar when she wrote...
...first time I saw Dorian Gray in that gallery, I couldn’t even look at No. 2 afterward. In comparison, the Pollock just seemed compleltely unstimulating: flat, bland, tame. I remember being very angry about this. I knew that the Pollock was a good painting, but I felt that Kline had somehow spoiled it for me. It was as if I had snacked on too much salty junk food and couldn’t taste anymore when I sat down to eat a nice meal...
House is, in other words, the opposite of what a TV doctor is supposed to be--and the most enjoyable new character of the fall. Without him, House (Fox, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) could have been a bland disease-of-the-week exercise like NBC's stultifying Medical Investigation. Every week House and the staff at a New Jersey university hospital treat a different mystery illness. But House is working under protest, forced by his hospital administrator (Lisa Edelstein) to spend a few hours a week seeing actual patients face to face. Hobbled by an excruciating leg condition, he pops...
...starkly contrasts with East Campus, the women’s campus. Wharton mentions a university-authorized publication describing the “restless,” intriguing gothic architecture of West Campus, which creates a “harmonious atmosphere for learning,” in comparison to the bland and stately Georgian architecture of East Campus, “an integral part of the tranquil dignity found there...