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Smith's narrative is like Adam's diagram: all the pieces seem to fit, but we never feel the animating emotion behind it. We know Alex is driven by unresolved grief and anger, but we don't feel it except at aremove, as when the inebriated hero scrawls out sardonic responses on a hotel feedback form. ("How did you find your sleeping arrangements? Lonely.") We know that Alex's search for Kitty is a spiritual quest because the titles of that section are taken from the Zen parable "Ten Bulls." Nice touch, but it would be better if we knew...
...care of an entire community of people rather than as a mantra taught at a better-business seminar. Trivializing student life contributes to an atmosphere of hostility and resentment between the administration and the students—especially when the administration tries to deflect attention from its economics-driven decision to ignore undergrads by pretending its hands are tied by the greed of cable companies...
MOONLIGHT MILE. Slow, actor-driven pieces about bereavement may be acclaimed out of mere guilt—who has it in them to pan a sensitive, non-maudlin treatment of the aftermath of death? Like In the Bedroom and the lesser-known The Son’s Room, both of which dealt with families trying to live with the death of their child, this film has been lauded on the film-festival circuit. It-boy and Columbia dropout Jake Gyllenhaal (The Good Girl, Lovely and Amazing) is Joe, a faithful surrogate son to his dead fiancee’s parents...
...speakers and student organizers highlighted what they called the current crisis in the global coffee market, in which overproduction has driven prices down 70 percent from their high five years...
...Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 said he thought the scrutiny of grading practices might have driven down grades even absent specific policy changes...