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...Hollywood - where egos, paychecks and breasts tend to run bigger than anywhere else in the U.S. - gift bags, also known as ?swag,? are generously handed out to presenters at each of the half-dozen or so major awards ceremonies that take place each year. Typically the bags contain tens of thousands of dollars worth of goods and services donated by companies eager to have celebrities using their products. Even the richest stars snag swag, and who could blame them...
...Democratic officials are trying to soften the blow by giving South Carolina, if it wins the No. 4 spot, the week to itself, rather than sharing the primary day with more than a half-dozen other states, as it did in 2004. That's not convincing many. "South Carolina had become the make-or-break place for people who had survived the first hurdles," says Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. "So anything that gets inserted in between is not good news...
...Foreign films. Remember them? Graybeards dissolve in a puddle of fond memories as they recall the days, a few decades back, when movies in French, Swedish, Japanese, Italian and a half-dozen other languages set the medium?s standard for excellence. To be cinematically literate - "cinemate," to borrow a term Time proposed in a 1963 cover story heralding the first New York Film Festival - one had to be able to discuss the hidden narrative meanings and formal innovations of pictures like The Seventh Seal and Last Year at Marienbad. Foreign films had snob appeal and sex appeal. Or they...
...Summers’ presidency will prove to be the stark contrast between his ability to develop a bold plan for Harvard and his decided failure in getting others to buy into that plan. Summers brought a penchant for controversy unseen in Mass. Hall ever before, stirring perhaps a half-dozen controversies that each would have been tenure-defining mishaps for his two immediate predecessors—Derek C. Bok, who served four times as long as Summers, and Neil L. Rudenstine, who served twice as long. Indeed, if the Summers presidency is ultimately judged by the headlines he made...
...Summers. When West complained, Summers reportedly made unsubstantiated insinuations about West’s personal life at a New York Times editorial board meeting, according to Richard Bradley’s “Harvard Rules.” Why didn’t Summers attack any of a half-dozen other Harvard professors who published in similar venues and who, unlike West, had published intellectually unsound and morally reprehensible positions on, for example, torture? Was it racist or merely callous when, in 2004, Summers stated that the massive suffering of America’s indigenous people was largely unintentional...