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...Final Club crowd and the budding socialites showed off their hard-earned dance school moves and spun each other across the floor of the faux-Venetian atrium. If Harvard is the school of tomorrow’s leaders, then this gala was a peculiar subset of Harvard. Some were drawn by the art, perhaps, but most seemed drawn by visions of an Upper East Side future, a seat on a museum board, and the self-satisfaction—familiar to everyone who has attended one of the first Friday drink nights at the MFA—that comes with downing...
...think, an important time," said Rice, who credited al-Maliki's confrontation with al-Sadr's Shi'ite militia with shoring up government support among Iraq's Kurds and Sunnis. "You've seen a coalescing of a center in Iraqi politics." Maliki, also a Shi'ite, had drawn criticism in the past by Sunni factions in particular for failing to crack down on the Mahdi Army, which is blamed for much of the sectarian violence in Iraq...
...cranberry-grapefruit mixture, which I’d patented.” But these glimpses of a fully realized literary world are all too often overshadowed by his characters’ ideational monologues. “Literary Men” may not be great literature, but it is finely drawn social commentary. Still, Gessen might do well to pay heed to Belinsky’s advice: “Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge—they will be both moral and national...
...giving me comedy gold here.’”“Sarah Marshall,” the next installment in the seemingly endless string of Judd Apatow-produced comedies, might settle Segel’s relationship problems for good, and not just because of his hysterically drawn-out nude scene. After a slew of supporting roles in television and a successful writing career, Segel seems poised for breakout success. “When I was like 20, I had just finished ‘Freaks and Geeks’ and I was walking my first red carpet...
...hanging with the Arab community in New York City,” he said. “It’s just like having a good time and hanging out.” McCarthy’s inspiration and research was not limited to the United States. Tarek was drawn from the author’s own experiences in the Middle East. “I was in the Middle East for a bit; Tarek came out of there,” he said. “I was spending time with different musicians and artists...