Word: following
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...What to take away from the Saberi trial now is up to the Obama administration. It could follow the drums of the anti-dialogue voices and use Saberi’s case to once again balk at pursuing negotiation, or it could give credit—for whatever it’s worth—to Ahmadinejad’s public defense of Saberi’s right to appeal and view that, as a signal, Tehran is not willing to lose the diplomatic progress of the past season after Obama’s inauguration. The stakes are too high...
...name “Christie”—the 1980s. His novels have returned to these subjects again and again, beginning in “Less Than Zero,” continuing through his seminal work, “American Psycho,” and into a follow-up collection of short stories, “The Informers”—lately made into a somewhat uncomfortable film.Simon & Schuster, the New York publishing house, gave Ellis a huge advance on “American Psycho” after the 21-year-old author launched with...
...life, I wanted to have the least amount of responsibility possible,” Art says in a voiceover suitably devoid of emotion. Not very convincing.Adventure arrives in the form of Jane (Sienna Miller) and Cleveland (Peter Sarsgaard), a couple so alluring that Art cannot help but follow them as a third wheel. Jane plays the violin brilliantly but loves punk; she’s the kind of girl who softly asks, “Do you like pie?” in an accent caught somewhere between Tennessee and the acting studio. Cleveland, her boyfriend, is the most American...
...hair, and I eat men like air.” Sylvia Plath’s strong voice projects from a black rectangular machine resting on a table. A dozen people sit in surrounding blue chairs, listening attentively. Some hold anthologies of Sylvia Plath’s poetry and follow along with the poet’s recorded voice. Others merely listen. On Friday afternoons in the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room in Lamont Library, visitors gather to appreciate the recordings of prominent poets as part of REEL TIME, one of the new programs recently installed under the direction...
...make the case that they are nearing retirement age and need to preserve more of their savings instead of exhausting them on college tuition. This year, says Seth Allen, Grinnell's dean of admission and financial aid, more families are appealing on grounds that, after one parent had to follow a job to a different state, they now find themselves supporting two households. "The typical financial-aid process doesn't usually give us those kinds of nuances," Allen says. "It's really up to the family to determine, is this a reasonable award? And if not, let me go back...