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Similarly McEwan tries to avoid any need to flesh out Theo’s character by implying that his real self is found in his music. But this too fails in a puzzlingly flat description of one of his band’s rehearsals. Even Baxter is dull in the peril he presents. He has little power over the Perownes and is too erratic and crudely drawn to seem menacing as opposed to merely unpleasant. Perowne is solid if not especially likable but does not provide enough of a solid center to forgive the weak sketches that surround...
...tournament was about as Harvard as it gets. A massively organized NCAA-style affair, it had been put on with the kind of meticulous planning, devotion to detail, and flat-out entrepreneurialism that it takes to drive a Fortune 500 company...
...This is not balance,” said Lipstadt. “This is a guy who is saying the historical equivalent of ‘the earth is flat...
...Officers were dispatched to Plympton Street and Memorial Drive because of a report of yelling and one person allegedly forcing another into a vehicle. The officers determined the yelling party had simply gotten a flat tire and was upset about...
...years. But that's coming to an end. The single biggest risk to the economic prosperity of the U.S. today is education, specifically math, science and engineering education. Also, federal funding for the physical sciences, research needed to innovate new technologies and new products, has been flat for 30 years, while funding for life sciences has gone up threefold. We're more interested in extending our lives. But the reality is that what has kept the U.S. prosperous is not longer lives. It's newer products...