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...this one, the Faculty has some very good reasons to be skeptical. Gen Ed??s recommendations were at best uninspiring and clumsy—like changing the Core to a system of distribution requirements and ill-defined “Harvard College Courses”—and at worst of dubious educational value—like requiring students to have an “international experience” before graduating. If other committees’ less-than-stellar recommendations get the treatment Gen Ed??s have gotten—and, given the Faculty?...
...teaches that people have preferences...behavioral economics is about trying to understand where those preferences come from,” Cutler says. “Ed??s stuff...goes a step beyond and tries to understand why leaders do what they...
...company was Ed??s idea, but he always wanted to share his successes with others,” John Marshall ’01 said...
...Coens’ apparent thematic piece de resistance centers around Ed??s not entirely willing separation from humanity. The film’s title is a gateway, but everything from Ed??s companionship-without-communication marriage to his job—mirrors notwithstanding, a customer doesn’t see a barber at work—means to firm up the point. The Coens make some uncharacteristically naked stabs at developing this idea—a young pianist remarks to Ed that she doesn’t mind errors at a recital if they go unobserved...
...side of the spectrum sit Michael Badalucco as Doris’ portly dolt of a brother and Polito as the comical entrepreneur. Thornton, on the other hand, is so dry that he makes Clint Eastwood looks like Richard Simmons, and McDormand is positively wasted as a dull pawn of Ed??s and the Coens’ plottings. Gandolfini, never better than when flaunting a corker of a malicious smile, lingers securely in the middle of the scale. Tony Shalhoub makes the film’s best showing as an improbably shrewd big-city lawyer with the terrific name...