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...Nicholas Cage movie as a comedy. It wasn't. It was about a Chicago weather reader dealing with an almost classic midlife crisis-a divorce, a disaffected child, an accomplished, disapproving (and dying) father (Michael Caine) the tempting possibility of taking his act from local to national TV. Steve Conrad's excellent script is directed as a sort of sad frenzy by Gore Verbinski and the result is a very affecting movie, offering a convincing portrait of middle class desperation that ends in unsentimental affirmation. If it could have been made as an independent production it might have...
...change), I learned from my editors and from my news-comping, soon-to-be-blockmate. Amit R. Paley ’04 taught me how to make an FTM work and how to stand up to a source. When I did a research assistant stint for Parker R. Conrad ’02-’03, he treated me like someone who deserved to hear his thoughts about where his scrutiny was going. I knew nothing about the administration, about preregistration, about how university politics worked—but boy, did I learn fast when someone older bothered...
...Corporation member was in its early stages, we called for the selection of someone who would bring perspectives, expertise, and questions to the table that might otherwise be neglected. Diversity of opinion, we noted, was of particular importance because the new Fellow of Harvard College would be replacing Conrad K. Harper, known as the lone dissenting voice on the seven-member board that was criticized for being in lock-step with University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...Conrad K. Harper’s resignation from the Harvard Corporation in July left the University’s powerful board with six whites and one woman among them. But as an influential group of professors considered what they hoped to see in Harper’s replacement, their focus was not on race or gender. What they wanted was an academic...
Patricia A. King, a Georgetown professor who helped pioneer the study of bioethics and law, was elected yesterday as the first African-American woman on the Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing board.King will replace Conrad K. Harper, the board’s first black male, who resigned in August amid growing discontent with University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on women and minorities. In a telephone interview yesterday from her office at the Georgetown Law Center, King said, “In my experience, times like these and troubles like these can often lead...