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Movie heroes comein a variety of styles and moods. They can offer a brilliant smile (Errol Flynn) or a poignant wince (James Dean), a charismatic squint (Steve McQueen) or an implacable Mount Rushmore stare (John Wayne). But the most venerated always come in one state: dead. Here are four deceased icons, and five DVD memorials, that actually justify the hype...
...speaker, especially in front of large audiences. Any woman running for President will face a toughness conundrum: she will constantly have to prove her strength and be careful about showing her emotions. She won't have the luxury of, say, Bill Clinton's public sogginess. It will take a brilliant politician to create a credible feminine presidential style. So far, Senator Clinton hasn't shown the ease or creativity necessary to break the ultimate glass ceiling...
Coulters's quick wit is the slap in the face that awakens us from the stupor of liberalism. Go girl, go! TIME'S story focused on her throwaway statements and missteps to the exclusion of her brilliant recovery in debate and the dazzling and unflinching acumen she displays as a guest television commentator...
...interdisciplinarity? Yes, but the effort to make it happen has to come from the departments. The most critical thing is hiring faculty who can integrate the discipline of the hiring department and that of another department. Obviously, there will be trade-offs between getting professors that are exclusively brilliant in their own disciplines and piles of mush in others, and hiring interdisciplinary specialists who might not look as good within the confines of a single department. But there is certainly room to move away from the piles-of-mush extreme we?...
...however, The Crimson reported that the Signet had become just another venue for socializing. “The assumption that a group of interesting people will spontaneously produce brilliant conversation when brought together does not often hold true after a morning of classes when most members prefer to relax rather than to emanate or to absorb culture,” the Crimson story said...