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...dotted with distilled illustrations of the many facets of the reunification, some of which shine much brighter than others. When Alex and Lara look for a place to live together, they soon realize that mass exodus to the West has turned East Berlin into a veritable ghost town of cast-off responsibilities and forgotten dreams. In one powerful scene, the two of them prance through an abandoned apartment, a lavishly appointed mausoleum that is as empty as the socialist dream in 1990. A confrontation with a bank teller about Alex’s fortune in East...
Okusanya leans back in his desk chair in his garret-like single, littered with cast-off clothes and books, explaining how Harvard’s environment was the key to unlocking his love of hip-hop dance. Being at Harvard “definitely, definitely encouraged my creativity,” he says, citing the broad range of talent as part of his inspiration. “There is a certain motivational drive that people have here that forces them to be really good, if not great, at whatever they have to do—it’s just...
...schedule. Unless required to, few professors would care to shoulder the extra workload of a month-long class, especially if planning it cut into the teaching demands of the Fall semester. Without attracting the quality classes that the true semesters do, a J-Term would likely offer cast-off courses—filling classrooms with dispirited junior professors forced to teach out of career considerations. The certain-to-be-unpopular alternative—forcing faculty members to alternate teaching J-Term courses—could overload professors and have a negative impact on the courses in the fall and spring...
...battle between commercial culture and folk culture, I favor home-made attempts, with cast-off clothing, burnt cork make-up and all the rest...
...billion deal to acquire Salomon Bros., one of the world's largest bond-trading houses. Says Weill, 64, of his odyssey: 'I never thought it could be anything approaching this.' ... Weill stands apart from an industry where oversize egos often overwhelm logic. His latest deal caps years of collecting cast-off companies at fire-sale prices and then trimming costs by paying close attention to detail ... 'I have never in my life said anything was the culmination of a dream,' Weill observes, 'because if you stop dreaming, I can't imagine what the world would be like...