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...quite possible that Lewis’ departure was sparked only by University President Lawrence H. Summers’ desire to staff the administration with “his own” people, a common move by new managers in any organization (but one sometimes handled with more grace than we saw here). On the other hand, the restructuring might reflect a more fundamental philosophical change, reshaping the administration to focus more on academics—Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby have publicly encouraged Harvard students to pay even greater attention to their studies than they already...
...unlike, say, the last sentence of the preceding paragraph--Angell never for a moment forces the game to carry a meaning, metaphorical or otherwise, that it doesn't ask for. A deep thinker he may be, even an intellectual, but whatever baseball's true meaning, he has the good grace to write around it; he leaves the unutterable unuttered. The lure of the game, what draws the Nobelists and the laureates, may be the elusive but ever present possibility of perfection: the no-hitter, the flawless diamond of a double play, even the ruler-straightness of a well-kept base...
...genre that lets you create your own world, who can resist the temptation merely to blow it all up while shaking a head at what fools these mortals be? Not Atwood. What's missing here is the emotional sinew of Cat's Eye, the complex mortifications of Alias Grace. In which case, pass the popcorn. --By Richard Lacayo
...genre that lets you create your own world, who can resist the temptation merely to blow it all up while shaking a head at what fools these mortals be? Not Atwood. What's missing here is the emotional sinew of Cat's Eye, the complex mortifications of Alias Grace. In which case, pass the popcorn...
...continues to grow unchecked, I project that we will see presidential debates replaced with Zoolander-style “walk offs” no later than 2016. Then again, this may not be such a bad thing, as it couldn’t hurt to have a leader with grace, poise and physique...