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...periodic involvement connects them. Volpi gives us a preview of a formidable Soviet biologist who loses her loved ones, first to the cruelty of communism and then to the charm of capitalism; a conflicted IMF negotiator who “comport[s] herself like a government bond??; and a dangerously dispassionate Hungarian computer scientist who attracts men easily and abandons them even more effortlessly. All three face the challenge of watching others be engulfed by impulsive greed, betrayed by the very emotional defenses they once sought to construct. The novel’s failure, however, to carefully develop...
Faust fielded questions about the endowment (large, and poorly understood), how being female informs her presidency (she has a “secret bond?? with women on campus), and whether she will attend the ROTC commissioning ceremony, which she missed last year to speak at a Radcliffe reunion event, (unclear...
...incredible to consider the amount of vitriol the steroid issue has already inspired. Baseball was practically seized in a wave of hate and anger over what appeared to be a cheater acquiring the greatest record in all of sports. People bemoaned the ultimate triumph of evil over good, treating Bond??s achievement as though it heralded the final destruction of Western civilication and any semblance of human decency. But what happens when the “cheater” is someone on our favorite team next? What happens if it turns out to be all of them, even...
...wasn’t ‘trained’ to answer that,” Riley says.But with additional training sessions and a monetary compensation, the developers of the Advising program hoped to amend this problem of authority, rendering its PAFs with something closer to a familial bond??a certain accountability that at the end of the day allows the advisees to be reassured that someone is assigned to look after them.“I think one of the real benefits of compensating the Fellows, that is, recognizing the responsibility of the Fellows, is that...
Thank God for Judi Dench. As long as she is around, giving people a steely gaze and telling it like it is, whether as James Bond??s cantankerous boss in “Casino Royale” or as the “battle axe” of a schoolteacher she plays in “Notes on a Scandal,” there will always be films worth seeing. Not that there aren’t other reasons to see “Notes on a Scandal.” Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy (whom viewers...