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...Mafia wife. Daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn DiScala) is still with boyfriend Finn (Will Janowitz) and looking ahead to life after college, while nihilist son A.J. (Robert Iler) is taking cellphone pictures of himself instead of studying in class. Carmela has settled into a melancholy peace with having chosen the good (but bad) life with Tony over being a poor-but-noble divorcee. Silvio (Steven Van Zandt) and Paulie Walnuts (Tony Sirico) are still the mafia princes of comic relief. ("It was f___in' mayham!" Paulie blusters after a holdup gone awry.) Uncle Junior (Dominic Chianese) is slipping deeper into senility...
...Somehow, I doubt that the Academy is interested in avoiding controversy in this category. They’ve chosen euthanasia-friendly fare two years in a row, with 2004’s “The Sea Inside” and 2003’s “The Barbarian Invasions.” But I think they will turn down “Paradise Now” in favor of South Africa’s “Tsotsi,” which has just enough exotic feel-goodery to make voters feel pleased with themselves...
...Menand feels that the faculty will still have significant input in the future of the Curricular Review, which should take the onus off of the heir to the throne.But no matter what questions the future president of Harvard has to answer, everything depends on who gets chosen to sit in the hot seat...
...University has far more legs (9 faculties, 13 schools, 52 budgets) but also a good deal more resting upon them. For those not enrolled in Religion 1513: A History of Harvard and Its Presidents, let me summarize Professor Gomes’ theory on presidential selection: Presidents are often chosen to compensate for the failings of their predecessors. With complaints about Summers’ top-down style of leadership, it’s tempting to appoint a charming, hands-off president who will leave each of the University’s many divisions to develop on their own provided...
...Muhammad. The Shiites believe that the Prophet had passed the mantle of leadership to his own descendants, first to his cousin and son-in-law, Imam Ali, who in turn passed it to his own son (and the Prophet's beloved grandson) Imam Hussein. They rejected the three Caliphs chosen by consultation among the Prophet's followers after his death - those recognized by the Sunnis, who constitute about three quarters of the world's Muslims today - and instead followed a series of 12 imams who were direct descendants of Muhammad. The schism originated as a violent power struggle, with both...