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...anything but sex and old age. The racy scenes spiral out of control until one of the men attempts suicide. Without warning, “Sing Now” brings a serious moral theme into focus—marriage and life aren’t perfect, so all you Gen-Xers out there need to appreciate your thirties while you can still skinny-dip. Someday you really will be old. The problem is, no matter where the script turns, the plot is frivolous. It’s a funny movie, but it’s uncomfortably lodged between the patently...
...Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu.CORRECTION: The April 25 news article "History Finds Its Place in Gen Ed" incorrectly referred to Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw's introductory economics class as "Economics 10." In fact, it is titled "Social Analysis 10: Principles of Economics...
...Things quickly got out of hand. Winthrop House’s UC representative encouraged his Housemates to vote in a referendum on their own sovereignty. His email to the UC was signed “Gen. Sadam.” (Too soon? Two ‘d’s?) Other Houses declared war on one another, some declared their neutrality. I stopped paying attention...
...speech to the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute is the best single analysis by any political figure of where we stand in the war in Iraq. It is a serious and sober attempt to persuade the American people that the war is winnable, that we should give Gen. Petraeus a chance to win it, and that accepting defeat would be both ignoble and disastrous to American interests. With this morally and intellectually impressive speech, John McCain took leadership of the fight for victory in Iraq...
...have to contend with no fewer than 10 proposed changes to the legislation in the course of the three remaining regular Faculty meetings on the schedule for this spring. Another amendment calls for the new general education program to encourage study in languages other than English. “[Gen ed] aims to teach students to be citizens to the world,” said Virginie Greene, professor of Romance languages and literatures, who co-authored the amendment with Werner Sollors, the Cabot professor of English Literature and of African and African American Studies. “We have...