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...will do so in the future. Still, all of these stories have some place in Harvard’s larger history. In one sense, they acknowledge an inherent limitation of Harvard athletics. We are stuck at the threshold of being a major athletic program—good enough to garner interest, but not to be a main attraction...
...taking other meaningful steps—including, for instance, requiring incoming freshmen to complete readings on racial sensitivity—now seems to be working to solve Harvard’s race problems in a concerted and dedicated manner. The University’s commendable effort should surely garner the support and active engagement of all members of the Harvard community...
Even so, being in charge retains its appeal. Gervais did Ghost Town in part to help prepare for shooting This Side of the Truth, an $18 million film due out next year, co-starring Jennifer Garner, about a world in which he's the first person to lie. He financed it without a studio so he'd have control. And he's working on a movie with his writing partner on The Office and Extras, Stephen Merchant, called The Man from the Pru, about a group of twentysomething friends in 1970s England trying to escape from their poor, small town...
...best-known and longest-serving Catholics. Although he comes from a middle class family, his pro-union, moderate-to-liberal voting record and Irish-American family background give Biden popularity with working class and ethnic voters. Although Delaware has only three Electoral College votes, Biden's background could help garner a few more next door: Biden lived in Pennsylvania until age 10, and a grandfather served as a State Senator there...
...Universal is hoping. But it is of course too early to tell whether or not Sa will break out of her rarified niche and garner mainstream appeal. She appears to approach the subject philosophically. "I don't mind people misunderstanding my music," she says. "Others really understand it." All that Buddhist chanting must be teaching her a thing or two about detachment...