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...concern had nothing to do with the way Kinsley appeared to be flirting with doom by regularly needling his boss in his "readme" column. ("Have it killed," Bill Gates orders Kinsley in a recent column. "You mean, 'Have him killed,'" Kinsley replies, referring to the author of a Slate article. "No, you fools," Gates shrieks. "Kill the piece! Kill the piece!") I suspect such stuff is seen at Microsoft headquarters as a necessary evil, a way for Kinsley to demonstrate Slate's independence...
...tale to a ministering angel (Juliette Binoche) who can give him what he needs: not absolution but understanding. The lovers are Ralph Fiennes--all coiled sexiness, threat shrouded in hauteur--and Kristin Scott Thomas, who has the gift of making intelligence erotic; they come together in a dance of doom that is abrasive, mysterious, powerful, inevitable. Anthony Minghella's beautiful film, based on the Michael Ondaatje novel, gets the rapture right, with a scope and intimacy rarely seen on film since the David Lean days...
Hicks resigned under pressure and without implementing his vision -- or re-vision -- for St. Paul's School. His resignation hasn't spelled doom for boarding schools; rather, his failure is an affirmation that St. Paul's rejects Dauber's snob image and seeks to grow and diversify. In fact, during all the turmoil that surrounded Hicks' rectorship, the school remained popular and applications flowed in in growing numbers...
Another night spent digging out the last liquid remnants of my roommate's white-out may spell my doom. If I have to ask for another recommendation commenting on the "suitability of my proposal," I may explode. Don't I deserve better than this? I go to Harvard...
...fictions, A History of Danish Dreams and Borderliners, that found their balance somewhere between interesting and irritating. And the glum report here is that Hoeg's latest novel, The Woman and the Ape (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 261 pages; $23), is a disaster, part animal-rights tract and part millennial doom mongering, that looks at irritating from the underside...