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...friends recently called me to talk about the exciting Red Sox season ahead. He goes to BU and, like any proud Boston fan, was excited about the baseball games coming up. I, however, was very disappointed. Why, you might wonder? Because my friend and I went to the same Chicago-area high school, where for the decade we lived in the area we both cheered for the Bulls, the Bears, the Cubs, and other area teams. His switch in allegiances upon moving east struck me as overly convenient, even disloyal. I didn’t say it on the phone...
Malcolm G. Campbell ’10 and his brother Graham were playing the piano in Quincy one day when a friend walked in. “It was so eye-opening for him to see my brother and me making music together,” Malcolm says. Graham, who is diagnosed with Down Syndrome, has been playing piano since childhood. This Sunday, he and Malcolm will both perform in the Down Syndrome Awareness Seminar and Concert, which will take place in the Adams House Lower Common Room. The event, which celebrates the passions and talents of individuals with Down...
...everyday with humor. Brian’s life before meeting Happy is one of limited scope. His job, as he describes it, involves selling less than 10 mattresses a month; his social life consists entirely of family dinners with his sleepy 80-year-old father and visits to his friend Larry’s (Brian Avers) psychological laboratory.But this focus on the mundane never detracts from the movie’s charm. Luminous details—like Brian’s earnest attempts to adopt a Chinese baby despite his young bachelorhood, and Larry’s inexplicable penchant...
...girls: “‘We call this writing exercise the turning point of view. The change in narrative perspective triggers an internal psychological shift that allows you to see past decisions in a whole new way. It’s similar to when you see a friend making a huge mistake and it’s just so obvious.’”And so “Perfect Fifths” becomes a meta-fiction, and even its narrative point of view serves the themes of memory and revision. If it is chick...
...worthy characters. At the center of the movie is Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe), a seasoned reporter for The Washington Globe who begins to unravel a government conspiracy while investigating the death of a research assistant to Congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck)—coincidentally Cal’s friend and college roommate. Accompanied by Della Frye (Rachel McAdams), a young but eager political blogger for The Globe, Cal discovers that at the center of the plot is PointCorp, a private company bidding for Defense Department contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan that Collins is investigating.Based on a BBC television miniseries...