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...turn it over to the new deputy chief of staff in charge of day-to-day policy, Harvard-trained wunderkind Joel Kaplan, 36, one of the former Supreme Court clerks from the Austin policy shop. Kaplan, a former Marine artillery officer who shares Bolten's boyish sense of humor, has been his deputy for the past five years. The Massachusetts native married a Texan earlier this month, with Bolten reading in English seven blessings derived from a traditional Jewish marriage ceremony...
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...thanks to movies like Austin Powers and TV shows like Alias, created by new Mission director J.J. Abrams. But perhaps it was time to lighten things up. Says Abrams: "Any time you make a movie with a No. 3 in [its title], you have to have a sense of humor...
...Russian play imported to Japan, with its dark humor and dour humanity intact--indeed, italicized? That's what Akira Kurosawa managed in 1957 with his faithful film of Maxim Gorky's claustrophobic epic. The Criterion edition offers a bonus: Jean Renoir's '36 version, with Jean Gabin in the role of the charismatic thief played in the Kurosawa film by Toshiro Mifune. It's a chance to see two movie masters stamp their genius on a superb drama...
...wasn’t meant to be humorous—just true.For, while many Harvard students may make witty comments in section, few choose to share the laughs with an audience. Even fewer engage in solo stand-up performance.Yet there’s a longstanding tradition of Harvard humor. Just look at the Lampoon, which has been supplying Hollywood with comedy writers for years. Or Conan O’Brien ’85, mentor to a generation of stand-up comedians. More importantly, Harvard Yard is situated across the street from a thriving comedy club that is a hotbed...