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...attacked with unsubstantiated claims. And those who have attempted to malign these good people—who devote their entire time at Harvard to trying to make a positive difference,—should be ashamed. But the best response to aggression is not always escalation or retaliation. To calm the tensions that have resulted from the events of the past two weeks, I present the facts...
...Owing to the couple's wealth and status (his father is a dairy tycoon, his mother a society columnist), the details are splashed all over their hometown San Francisco newspapers. Not long after, his mother tries to enlist her 11-year-old son in a suicide pact. With preternatural calm, the boy resists. The incident, however, does not leave him unharmed. With both parents too self-absorbed to offer stability or guidance, Wilsey, an editor at the literary journal McSweeney's, careens among boarding and reform schools, a journey he recounts with clear-eyed, wry and poignant humor...
...composer whose work is rarely soothing and more often than not unsettling, it's fascinating to watch Liza Lim attempt to calm her crying three-year-old son Raphael. "Do you want me to wheel you out?" she asks him at the headquarters of the Sydney Symphony, where Lim is composer in residence. She moves his stroller around the conference table, but still he whimpers. "Would you like some water?" Instead, Raphael calls out for his father, Daryl Buckley, who is artistic director of the new-music elision Ensemble, based at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. "You want...
...VERY CALM AND REASONED?...
...He’s very calm and reasoned,” Grossman says...