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...male middle-schoolers in 1992, The Firm, along with maybe Jurassic Park or the latest Stephen King novel, was the entry point to the world of adult bestsellers, critically ignored books that were still so much cooler than To Kill a Mockingbird. The best way to understand The Firm is to compare it to the film version. I remember being disappointed with the movie. It may have been the first page-to-screen adaptation I’ve ever eagerly anticipated, and I concluded—perhaps inevitably—that it wasn’t as good...
...harder I searched for reasons, the more I floundered. By Thursday morning I had nearly decided to just relax and enjoy my newfound cachet. I sauntered into the office, feeling just a bit cooler, hipper, more in touch with those crazy kids. Then I picked up a newspaper...
John Walker's last contact with his family was in May 2001. He told his mother he was leaving Bannu and "moving somewhere cooler for the summer." He asked his father for money, and Frank Lindh sent him $1,200. It wasn't long before Marilyn Walker wondered just where her son had gone. In early summer, she contacted John's madrasah. According to the Marin Independent Journal, a teacher there wrote her back on July 27, saying John, whom he called Sulayman Faris, arrived at the school on Nov. 30, 2000, and "impressed [everyone] with his character" during...
...John Walker's last contact with his family was in May 2001. He told his mother he was leaving Bannu and "moving somewhere cooler for the summer." He asked his father for money, and Frank Lindh sent him $1,200. It wasn't long before Marilyn Walker wondered just where her son had gone. In early summer, she contacted John's madrasah. According to the Marin Independent Journal, a teacher there wrote her back on July 27, saying John, whom he called Sulayman Faris, arrived at the school on Nov. 30, 2000, and "impressed [everyone] with his character" during...
...students to provide for, could create the same warm environment that characterizes some of the smaller ones. In the English department, for example, chair Lawrence Buell notes that the workplace doesn’t tend to be the site of “very much schmoozing around the water cooler.” With many faculty members travelling frequently or taking sabbatical, the department often has to rely on departmental meetings to bring faculty members together...