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More than ever before, dear Harvard is telling its 6,000-plus undergraduates to get out of here. The Ivy gates, as exclusive and foreboding as they are to outsiders, often prove more suffocating to those inside, and the administration is doing its best to encourage its undergraduates to forsake Lamont for Latvia and the Coop for Cape Town...
...radical students' group. Sadie, the lead singer in a band where JoJo plays guitar, gets steamed when he upstages her with a Hendrix riff. Prudence loves JoJo unrequitedly. Max is always in a snit. Often the characters aren't people at all so much as song cues ("Dear Prudence," "Hey Jude"). It's no wonder that Joe Roth, of the amusingly named Revolution Studios, got onto a tangle with Taymor by recutting the film. I don't know if the movie in theaters is his version, hers or a compromise. Whoever is responsible, the narrative is all dull bustle...
...Bush," as he signed the letter, was writing to congratulate me on hanging up my column after two decades at his favorite weekly sports magazine. "Dear Mr. Sports Illustrated," he began, consecrating me with a presidential nickname, like Turd Blossom or Pootie-Poot or the immortal Brownie. "I read your final ... article in your literary home of 19 years. Like many who enjoy your work, I'll miss your humor, your style, and compassion...
...Since the sale of The Body Shop, Roddick, whose sense of social injustice kicked into gear after she read a book on the Holocaust when she was 10, had been focusing on the charities and campaigns she held dear. Claiming that she didn't want to "die rich," she gave away around $6 million a year and planned to spend the rest of her time doling out grants and donations and lending her name to causes like stopping sweatshop labor and protesting the imprisonment of two of the "Angola 3" Black Panther members being held in a Louisiana state prison...
...rier may have missed the note of desperation. "God guides you, dear Mother," he answered avuncularly. "You are not so much in the dark as you think ... You have exterior facts enough to see that God blesses your work ... Feelings are not required and often may be misleading." And yet feelings - or rather, their lack - became her life's secret torment. How can you assume the lover's ardor when he no longer grants you his voice, his touch, his very presence? The problem was exacerbated by an inhibition to even describe it. Teresa reported on several occasions inviting...