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...what motions they were voting for in the first place. The end result, a pointless miasma of motions and amendments, served nothing except the vanity of those thinking they were arguing over something meaningful. The situation eventually vaporized, as most issues at Harvard tend to, by University President Draw G. Faust agreeing to set up a committee exploring the issue. If the Faculty enjoys this sort of thing, it might be well-advised to set up a debate club for such exercises in hollow bombast. That way, Faculty meetings could be reserved for the accomplishment of actual business. The proposed...
...seemingly calmer publication that will be a hit if it reaches 10,000 readers: "Functional Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief and Uncertainty." It appears in the respected journal Annals of Neurology. And Harris, 40, claims it has little if any connection to his two popular books. Believers, however, may draw their own conclusions - and may want to read his subsequent neurological studies even more carefully...
...Year-Old Virgin” and “Superbad,” takes some calculated risks. First, a plotline constructed to mock the inexhaustible slew of musician bio-pics finds Apatow outside his filmmaking comfort zone. Second, Apatow’s brand of comedy has become the primary draw, instead of the film’s star, John C. Reilly, a leading man whose most memorable role for Apatow’s audience (or anyone else’s, really) is Cal Naughton, Jr. in “Talladega Nights.” Third, as his eighth production...
...tension between the everyday and the literary life is a shopworn theme of modern literature; writers love to draw on their own professional struggles as they disgorge novels about being or trying to become writers. But in an age when so many cultural products compete for the public attention, to bring forth yet another work of this kind - to spend a book pondering, as Nan does, the question, "Do you have to live a literary life to produce literary work?" - is risky indeed. Ha Jin's demotic prose is as smooth as Windexed glass, but A Free Life lacks...
...university community should be engaged with the surrounding community and in contact with it,” he said. He said he believes that Harvard is foremost a place of higher learning that teaches “students to think carefully and logically about the world and to draw their conclusions about how the world is and how it should be.” “One would hope that if our educational contributions make [students] understand the world they’re in, they’ll be better citizens,” Frieden said...