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...Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions,” former Princeton President William G. Bowen and former Harvard President Derek C. Bok describe the “broad aims of the admissions process” as including, “the need to assemble a class of students with a wide diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and talents.” They argue, further, that such diversity is beneficial to their student populations, and to society in general: the authors cite evidence that, between the 1976 and the 1989 college entering cohorts...
Here's the most eclectic cast in movie history--Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen--in the second longest film released by a major studio (after Cleopatra). If Kenneth Branagh doesn't win an Oscar for his four-hour, uncut Hamlet, he should at least cop a Chutzpah Award...
...time, that is, until they discover, about twenty feet apart, an airplane full of cocaine and a long-lost ship full of a billion pounds of gold. At this point, my roommate Derek C. Dorr, ’08, ever the fan of craptastic cinema, said, “I wish Ocean Eleven guy [Scott Caan] would get shot.” Word...
Summers recused himself from the University’s legal strategy in the lawsuit, and Harvard called in former University President Derek C. Bok as an advisor. But Summers still has control over Shleifer’s fate at Harvard and seems to have stuck by his friend. In 2002, Summers’ first full year as president, Shleifer became the Whipple V. N. Jones professor of economics, adding an endowed chair at Harvard to his already lengthy resume. And the following year, when New York University’s Stern School of Business tried to lure him away with...
...perfect choice. Bachchan was only too happy to find work. And so he accepted a series of roles in some of the most experimental films Bollywood has ever produced. There was 2003's Boom, a crime comedy in which he excelled as a white-suited gangster obsessed with Bo Derek; Baghban, also released in 2003, when he played an ex-bank manager exploring the loneliness of retirement; and this February's much-lauded Black, in which he plays an alcoholic, Alzheimer's-frazzled teacher of the disabled. Sarkar, his most recent release, has classic elements of the old Bachchan?killer...