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...weepies like An Affair to Remember, in which Deborah Kerr can't meet Cary Grant at the Empire State Building because she's been hit by a car, or The English Patient, in which Kristin Scott Thomas can't meet Ralph Fiennes because she has died alone in a cave. I mean, women are drawn to this material in a creepy, Pavlovian way, right? Surely they don't enjoy...
...other side of the gallery's entrance, grayscale clapboard houses cascade behind the dimpled shadows of a rumpled bed. The result is spellbinding. Forget the brainless integration of disparate images accessible to anyone with Adobe Photoshop; Morell wields a technique known since the time of Plato (think the Cave Allegory): the camera obscura, in which a single aperture allows for the projection of outside images onto the walls of a darkened room. It is comforting to note, as Morell's students reputedly do, "that something this low tech could be so magical...
Carnesale's handling of the Proposition 209 issue is instructive for us. When students at Harvard lobby for ethnic studies courses or cable TV and find their efforts stymied, they ought to remember that effective administrators must not simply cave in to what students believe to be in their interest, but instead are obliged to consider the most prudent path to the university's goals...
...than full independence. U.S. diplomats insist that the K.L.A. rebels "will get the message" not to play the spoiler. Milosevic declares he will not negotiate with the K.L.A. "terrorists" and will never allow foreign troops to enter Serbian territory. Washington believes he "understands" the language of force and will cave...
Right now it's not much of a debate: the mayors cave...