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However, it seems ironic that while most people my age try their best to hold onto their youth, Harvard students and their counterparts at other elite colleges are doing their damnedest to leave it behind. It seems that we can't grow up quickly enough. When students at other schools take advantage of the summer to return home and strengthen ties with old friends from high school, us Harvardians might drop in on Mom and Pop for a couple days before flying over to Europe to analyze the details of the latest Northern Ireland peace agreement. In the rush...
...surprising that the Feds are happy to have amateur sleuths help out, even if those sleuths happen to be hackers themselves. After all, plenty of old-school hackers are now high-salaried heads of security; others are employed as "white-hat" hackers who do their damnedest to crack a system in order to make it unbreakable. Why not turn them into cyber-Pinkertons? "They see themselves in this battle to protect the technology they love," says professor Philip Bobbitt, former National Security Council senior director for infrastructure protection. "No one will be as effective as someone who's fighting...
...Green breaks down the traditional audience/performer boundaries by involving everyone in a "workshoping Ophelia" wherein the crowd chants the various mantras of her id, ego and superego in preparation for her dramatic demise. If there is a prop to be used, Green's got it and is doing his damnedest to involve the audience members as well...
Basically, it's a Costnerian fantasy world. There's no gasoline, so everyone rides horses. There's no government, so Kevin gets to be a vigilante hero. There's no America east of the Rockies, so fuggedaboudit. And there are plenty of guns. I'm sure Costner tried his damnedest to work baseball into the story...
...endearing degeneracy cloaked in gentility. In short, he is nothing like Cusack's dippy, sententious young idealist. The closest he comes to romance is a date with a drag queen. And he certainly bears no resemblance to the late Elvis Presley, whom Cusack and his sideburns are trying their damnedest to impersonate...