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Harvard’s board plan should have fine print under it: “guarantee of unlimited meals only applies during restrictive hours that you probably won’t make.” Like the issue of a 24-hour library, extending dinner dining hours is a no-brainer and should have been discussed and enacted many years ago. But we realize that such an expectation smacks of idealism. Thus despite the issue’s previous neglect, we are glad to see that Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) finally appears open to work with the Undergraduate Council...
...Kofi Annan or another powerful political luminary. Fair enough. But unless the role of a Commencement speaker is merely to provide another name for Harvard students to reference in passing to their peers—and it is not—we are sure Lithgow will be a fine speaker. While speeches full of pleasantries and generalizations from well-known politicians may be the only thing that can excite some students and parents, we expect the special flair that Lithgow, a professional actor, will bring to his speech will more than make up for it. This year?...
...appropriate that Roy Fitzgerald should become Rock Hudson, as solid as Gibraltar and as steady as the river that flows past Manhattan's towers. A series of B movies followed, and through hard work Hudson learned the craft if not the art of acting. He gave a fine performance in Giant (1956), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, and showed a gift for comedy in a series of romances (like Pillow Talk) that he made with Doris Day in the late '50s and early '60s. As his movie career faded, he turned to TV, demonstrating his continuing...
...cassettes that are about the size and heft of Final Cut. The book is good, but, as it turns out for once, the movie is even better. The business will not appreciate the irony, nor is it likely to learn lessons from any of this. Final Cut makes a fine textbook and a strong caution, but Hollywood, a place of exalted and expensive vanity, has always had a tough time looking at itself in the mirror. --By Jay Cocks
...that suits him just fine...