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...place in Mexico City, at the turn of the last millennium. Carla, an American in her early twenties, has the wanderlust of many people her age. She goes to Mexico because she is "sick of everybody" and because she wants to find the roots of her resented "disappearing Mexican dad." The reasons for her arrival and prolonged year-long stay become a central theme in the book, as Carla's ideas of Mexico, loaded with all kinds of cultural assumptions, clash with the reality. Overstaying her travel visa she becomes a reverse illegal immigrant, working under the table...
...have imagined he?d win an Oscar before he got a Tony. And in the Animated Short category, the award went not to the Pixar cartoon One Man Band but to John Canemaker?s The Moon and the Son, an airing of the director?s grievances against his demanding dad. (In his acceptance speech, Canemaker thanked every member of his family but the man whose ill will had inspired the film...
...things I hope my successor will care about,” Summers said. Summers suggested that the set of courses that faculty members individually want to teach is not necessarily the best selection of courses for students—a remark that drew impromptu applause. Asked by one dad whether faculty tenure is an impediment to promoting excellence in undergraduate education, Summers expressed concern with the increasing age of Harvard’s professoriat due to tenure and federal laws that ban mandatory retirement. But Summers said he sees faculty tenure as important not only because it protects academic freedom...
DIED. DARREN MCGAVIN, 83, movie-set painter turned actor who played a streetwise crime reporter in the 1970s TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker and the Old Man, Ralphie Parker's curmudgeonly dad, in the 1983 classic A Christmas Story; in Los Angeles. He won an Emmy in 1990 for playing the title character's father in Murphy Brown...
This is not about a belated Marxist revolution (don’t worry Dad, I root for free markets), but the expression of the undeniable fact that our society makes qualitative judgments based on material possessions. Some years ago, several teenagers committed murder to get hold of Nike Jordan sneakers, just like many have been killed in iPod-related assaults. This is not even about Professor John K. Galbraith’s argument on advertisements creating mirages of brand loyalty, but about our social motto of “you are what you own.” Food obsessions...