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...President's Men wannabe, with the young Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) as Woodward and Bernstein, and his senior colleague Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.) as a crusty Ben Bradlee type with a lot more showmanship and a mile-wide self-destructive streak. Their sleuthing sometimes helps, mostly annoys detectives Dave Toschi (Mark Ruffalo) and William Armstrong (Anthony Edwards). When Toschi is asked, "Have you considered that the killer might be Paul Avery?", he deadpans, "Frequently...
...Crimson, as the Chargers’ tardy arrival pushed the game start back about half an hour. Harvard decided to extend its warmup to accommodate its visitors. “It felt like we were playing a five-game match instead of three,” senior setter Dave Fitz said. “We were very pleased to get out in three, just because if we had had to play more than that, some of us would have gone a little stir-crazy.” Despite the delay, Ridolfi had a plan to keep his players focused during...
...We’ve been practicing in a way that I felt that was the kind of match we were capable of,” coach Dave Fish ’72 said. “But you never quite know until you get to play it. We didn’t get to play a week and a half ago, and that was frustrating, because we were primed...
Hearing Valentino Achak Deng speak at Memorial Church on Monday night would have been an uncanny experience for those who have read Dave Eggers’ latest work. Deng is the protagonist of “What is the What,” a novel that is also a fictionalized, autobiographical account of his experiences as one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. And while Eggers’ name may be on the front of the book, the voice between the covers is unmistakably Deng’s.It is a surprising move for Eggers, a writer who has made...
Bestselling author Dave Eggers, whose most recent book is a fictionalized memoir of a Sudanese refugee, and Valentino Achak Deng, the refugee who inspired the novel, emphasized the power of the written word in educating the public about genocide in Darfur in a conversation at Memorial Church yesterday. The two men fielded questions about how they wrote the book, titled “What is the What,” and Eggers’ choice to relate Valentino’s story through a novel rather than through a traditional nonfiction medium. Such a decision, Eggers explained, came after prolonged...