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Fortunately, one small device can give me the power of a genie, a demigod and a high school-aged James Bond—my television remote. This summer I have rediscovered cartoons on cable, and life has been as glorious as a never-ending Saturday morning...
...people my age," says Jiang, "the Cultural Revolution was actually a lot of fun. We were just kids being kids." When Jiang met American director Martin Scorsese in New York City in 1992, he told him his idea for In the Heat of the Sun. Jiang's directing demigod told him simply: "Do it." It was wise advice. "You can see the person behind the film so clearly," says veteran cinematographer Christopher Doyle, explaining why he considers Heat one of the most remarkable movies he's ever seen. "It is informed by an incredible veracity...
...watched in this small community of 27 Indian families and some 50 Indonesian workers, and Carolyn's blond hair and Caucasian features made her particularly conspicuous, says Ghulam Hussein, a 53-year-old estate worker. Previously, Ghulam says, Shanmugavela had taken her to a nearby temple devoted to a demigod called Muniandy...
...only one lunch, and perhaps our professor won't remember our names. But perhaps he'll remember our conversation. I know that my friends and I certainly will. And when we come to his lecture next week, we'll see him differently. Instead of being an unapproachable intellectual demigod, he'll be someone who came to lunch with us last week--and someone who might have lunch with us again...
David Herbert Donald, the highly esteemed historian and author of 1995's Pulitzer Prize winning Lincoln, has fallen victim to that grim disorder that so often strikes Harvard's demigod professors. It's a disorder that most recently befell Fletcher University Professor Cornell R. West '74, with his Cornell West Reader. The disorder: over-inflated ego combined with tremendously juicy publishing deal...