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...short, Halevi was less an extremist than one of the early media militants who learned to exploit the press for publicity. His literary ambitions and his eventual decision to become a journalist suggest a more moderate man's need to examine experience in a cooler light. But his sharp skills as a journalist do not always serve him well as a memoirist. The emotional temperature drops steadily as Halevi writes about his disaffection with the JDL, his marriage to a woman with a Mayflower pedigree who converts to Judaism, the birth of his children, the death of his father...
Harvard's best chance to exploit the extra space came in the third period on a rare four-on-four situation. The Crimson did not let such an opportunity pass it by. Jason Karmanos followed up on a Henry Higdon wrap around shot to tie the game...
...expected from any devoted widower, O.J. has visited Nicole's grave since his release. However, the top secret photos taken by the National Enquirer at the time of the visit show that O.J. neither brought flowers nor wept. No doubt the folks at the Enquirer are continuing to exploit this case just as much as every other publication, but they might just be onto something...
...morally instructive tragedy here, just a hard lesson in postmodernist outlawry and its sad little anarchies. Writer-director Mike Figgis (Stormy Monday, Internal Affairs) places a few opportunities to arrest their course along this pair's path, but Ben and Sera don't notice them, and he refuses to exploit them for dramatic purposes or even for ironic effect...
...book Beyond the Ivory Tower, then-Harvard president Derek C. Bok wrote, "The great majority [of people] are concerned that programs to exploit technological development will confuse the university's central commitment to the pursuit of knowledge and learning by introducing into the very heart of the academic enterprise a new and powerful motive--the search for commercial utility and financial gain...