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...have been absent since Bill Clinton was in the hunt. Freshness doesn't last forever. If Obama waits and hangs around the Senate for six to 10 more years, he may wind up sounding like a Senator-which is to say he will no longer have command of the English language-and, worse, he may start thinking like a Washington politician, wizened by the accepted limits of the possible...
...last Bourbon monarch are not dramatized, merely alluded to. Oh, all right, Schwartzman's Louis XVI says at a meeting of his ministers, raise taxes; send troops to America. The intonations, especially of the American actors, are uninflected, perfunctory. And with the polyglot ensemble of actors speaking English in American, British, French and Italian accents, the film has the feeling of the original sound track of one of those European co-productions before the Babel of voices was dubbed into a single coherent vocal style. Though this may accurately reflect the cacophony of the Versailles court, it is painful...
Thank you for including a diverse group of influential people in your Time 100 list [May 8]. I was especially delighted to see the story on the South Korean pop star Rain. His fame across Asia and the upcoming release of his English-language album show that pop culture no longer moves strictly from West to East. I don't speak Korean, but like many Asian Americans, I am attracted to Asian entertainers. Janet Vo Boston It is good to know that American stars such as Angelina Jolie and George Clooney are using their public prominence to address serious problems...
...qualifications, noting that since she does work on Africa, teaches history, and is a woman, she will bring a different perspective to the council. She joins fellow historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who is vice-chair of the council.In addition to Schmid and Elkins, the new council will include English professor Louis Menand, art historian Irene J. Winter, chemist Eric N. Jacobsen, historian of science Sarah Jansen, and scientist Ann Pearson. Menand, the Bass Professor English and American Literature, joins the council after having served on the Harvard College Curricular Review’s Committee on General Education. A member...
...liberal arts graduates, because so much of what we’ve bled ourselves dry to learn will be completely irrelevant to our success in the future. Long on mental acuity but short on discrete skills, our diplomas act more like fall-retarding parachutes than free-flying hang gliders. English concentrators are going to work for investment banks. Reports on the market size for ball-bearings in Ohio and impenetrable mutual fund prospectuses will replace papers on Dante’s reinvention of the novel. Forced to redefine our individual expertises by the exigencies of the job market and quaternary...