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...gift for intricate plotting and broadly comical characterizations. The sexual eagerness, briefly, occasionally stayed by guilty hesitations between Jenna and her doctor is nicely judged and played with great brio. The same is true of the foot-sore waitresses. Maybe the guys they eventually settle for are far from ideal, but they are what's on offer there in East Overshoe, and the human animal will eventually settle for what warmth it can find as opposed to waiting endlessly for the romantic perfection that exists only in paperback originals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adrienne Shelly's Last Offering | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

That treasure was Israel's self-image. After independence in 1948, the kibbutzniks were seen as the new breed of Israeli. They discarded Europe's deathly pallor and became bronzed, idealistic pioneers. Degania, which had been founded in 1910 by 12 Jews escaping Russian persecution, was the ideal. Its members were beset by malaria, cattle thieves and bouts of self-doubt. Yet they greened the stony hills with citrus groves. At night in the communal dining hall they argued passionately over the grand themes of the late 20th century: the individual vs. the group, women's rights, capitalism vs. socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of a Zionist Idyll | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...term last fall. Clinton's Senate record - and particularly the skill she has shown working across party lines - has been her answer to those who say she is too polarizing to be elected. But as former majority leader Bob Dole and others have learned, the chamber isn't an ideal base from which to run a Presidential campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Hillary's Obama Counterattack | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Political organizers are especially excited about this online world, which they see as a recruiting and training ground for campaign volunteers. Moreover, SL is an ideal place to hold political rallies and protests because it offers candidates an engaged international audience in a way that’s a little more tangible than TV, but not quite like real life...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: The Politics of Second Life | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

Like many of our hot seniors, Pia S. Desai ’07 is taken. When asked about her ideal mate, she told FM “I like the one I’ve got.” Hottest thing Desai has done at Harvard? “Transferred back to the Quad from Eliot.” After graduation, Desai will move to New York to begin consulting at McKinsey and Company...

Author: By Eliza L. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

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