Word: daniels
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...final assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, played subtly by Daniel Zaitchik '98, is given special prominence. As he stands in the Texas Book Depository Building on November 22, 1963, the cast of assassins appears as a kind of ghostly support group, each announcing his/her name and assassination in Alcoholics Anonymous-like fashion, explaining that Oswald must kill Kennedy, for their sakes. The conspiracy theory is given a new spin here, as Booth, the leader of the dead assassins, claims that the combined spirit of the assassins is "the real conspiracy." "In fifty years, they'll still be arguing about the grassy...
Excessive emphasis on method in courses intended for non-specialists is also pedagogically unsound. It is true that substance and method are everywhere intertwined. But what attracts and holds a beginner's interest is substance, not method. The historian Daniel J. Boorstin writes in his introduction to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that it "was the first extensive work of English literature (and history) that I read and reread. It occupied much of my thought during my university years as an undergraduate." Einstein recalls how he fell in love with mathematics...
...Daniel K. Hamalainen '98, who worked for MBNA bank two summers ago, said that the bank is "really intensive on phone...
Mendelsohn, who received his doctorate from Harvard in 1960, replaces current Master Daniel S. Fisher, professor of physics. Fisher said that while he enjoyed his time at the house, he is glad to return his full attention to his students, family and research and is excited by the prospects for Mendelsohn's term...
...what seems like an effort to compensate for the fact their star isn't, say, Daniel Day-Lewis, the creators of The Odyssey limn an even more brooding, contemplative hero than exists in Homer's epic. The original Odysseus is a heavyweight to be sure, but he is also a fast-talking, spirited wheeler-dealer, famous for his cunning. The creators might have had fun with that aspect of his character. Instead, they have conjured up a guy who seems to be on a very long journey to find his missing Prozac, even when he is rolling around...