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...mogul, his sons pledge to avenge his murder, but the project gets complicated. For one thing, their sister Lake ends up married to one of the killers. For another, brother Kit becomes the beneficiary of Vibe's calculating generosity, studying higher mathematics at the old man's expense in G??ttingen, Germany, a hotbed of mathematical theorizing--assuming hotbed and mathematical can be used in the same sentence...
This is a Pynchon novel, so of course they can. In G??ttingen, Kit will be dazzled by Yashmeen Halfcourt, a beautiful mathematician with mystical leanings. Yashmeen, meanwhile, is caught up in the theoretical wars between vector analysts and the champions of Quaternions, each with their visions of which was more real--time or space. This last controversy is somehow central to Pynchon's preoccupations with time travel, alternate realities and a whole spectrum of options for escaping a world headed into the calamities of World War I and beyond. Lacking a degree in advanced math, I'm still hard...
...Sergei Dvortsevoy, showing at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) on Nov. 4 and 5, offer insight into the daily lives of marginalized residents of Kazakhstan and other former Soviet countries. Those hoping to catch a glimpse of a real live Kazakh next weekend, however, are better off seeing Ali G??s “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Although Dvortsevoy was originally scheduled to appear for the screenings of his films, he won’t make it to the United States. Brooke Holgerson, Editorial Assistant...
...G??rard Depardieu called to ask why you keep getting all the roles...
...letting go or having that difficult conversation, which I was never quite up to. I think the one time I actually did do it myself was when John [Reed, his co-CEO at Citi] and I decided to tell Jamie [Dimon, a Citi president and his longtime protg??] that this was not working out. I felt that I had enough of a relationship with Jamie that I should be the one who tells him, which I did. But it was not easy...