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Maybe Body of Lies will break the losing streak. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Roger Ferris, a fearless CIA operative roaming the Middle East, and Russell Crowe as his Stateside boss Ed Hoffman. The movie was scripted by William Monahan, Oscar winner for The Departed, and directed by Ridley Scott, who proved in Black Hawk Down that he knows how to detonate suspense in the bazaar of political ideas. More important, Body of Lies is based on David Ignatius' best seller, which casts Ferris as a good-guy hero, firmly in the spy-novel tradition, and makes him the agent...
...example, upon finishing driver’s ed., the instructor thoughtfully called my parents to give them a casual heads-up on what skill they could help me perfect before the big day. Grateful for this courtesy, my mother anticipated a suggestion that I might put a little extra time into, say, parallel parking. Three point turns, maybe? Hell, even “coming to a slow stop” would have been less shameful than what the instructor actually had to say: “I think Katie might benefit from more practice on her right hand turns...
...resources and confidence. When the world is “interconnected” doesn’t it follow that the richest country’s struggle will lead to an inferno everywhere else? Not quite. As economics professor Kenneth S. Rogoff recently put it in his op-ed for The Financial Times: “It is almost as if the more the U.S. messes up, the more the world loves...
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...team struggled on the Charles, finishing 11th out of 20 in the Regis Bowl at Boston University. SMITH TROPHY28 boats crowded the starting line at MIT for the Smith Trophy. Both club and varsity teams accounted for the larger-than-usual turnout, and the Harvard co-ed team took advantage of this opportunity to gain some scheduling points.“We’re really working hard on our performance, it was a really good opportunity to get some good scheduling points for future regattas and show what we’re made of,” said senior...