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...rather than satisfying us. Some, like the Bond films, require extravagant endings to satisfy the suspense. Thomas has picked a genre which requires not extravagance, but skill. Yet she supplies neither. This ghost story can not succeed without an effective ending, one in which the ghost and its victim confront each other squarely. In The Haunting of M, the ghost is never vanquished, merely disappointed by Marianna. Thomas ending seems muted in its Victorian delicacy. Marion, wrapped in such timeless wrath, should be less amenable to the coquettish defenses of Marianna...
Yale coach Mark Young said Straus may be ready to confront Harvard's best in the Easterns...
...work, they believe they won't get any respect, they believe they'll be hard of hearing, and their teeth will fall out, and nobody will want them." The aging are into fitness all right, but anyone who wants to feel really old has only to confront another statistic. The huge baby-boom generation, which statistically has already helped bulge out of shape various U.S. institutions, including schools and colleges, is now age 27 to 35. Most of the 76 million boomers are finished with the drug culture and alternative therapies. Instead, many of them have seized...
While Jordan's politice do pretend to address the needs of all Black Americans, he fails to confront the growing stratification within the Black community. In his recent speech at the Kennedy School Forum. Jordan, like many Black Harvard students in his audience, was unwilling to concede that the policies that have helped middle-class Blacks have done little for Blacks in Harlem...
...issue that Jordan and many campus Black leaders seem unable to confront is that the increase in black elected officials, the gains Blacks have made in managerial positions, and the presence of Blacks at elite universities have not significantly aided the lower classes. If anything, the gains enjoyed by middle-class Blacks have sometimes served to exacerbate the disappoinements and frustrations of the estimated 35 percent of Black Americans who are currently below the poverty line. The Black poor now see many of their brethren "making it" while their own sad conditions persist of in many cases worsen. One example...