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...aware of serious American dilemmas. Thus, each year, Harvard produces a bumper crop of graduates ready to climb the ranks on Wall Street or in Washington, but blind to the glaring gaps between American ideals and American reality. These graduates are committed to preserving the flawed institutions they will inherit from older Harvard alumni. They will also stomp on others in pursuit of the almighty dollar, and the myths they were told at Harvard will salve their consciences...
...HANKS is too golly-gosh ever to be mistaken for Orson Welles, but he may nevertheless inherit the mantle. Having got a lock on decent-guy-in-difficult-circumstances roles, Hanks is taking a stab at writing, directing and starring in his own movie. He's wrapping That Thing You Do, with (clockwise from top left) ETHAN EMBRY, STEVE ZAHN, TOM EVERETT SCOTT, LIV TYLER and JOHNATHON SCHAECH, the story of a rock band in 1964. (You were perhaps expecting vampires and crack?) "There was a lack of cynicism," says Hanks of that era. "In 1964, everybody still believed...
...would not accept his foibles, gave way to the fear of the emptiness without Him; years before he realized he could embrace his father's calling and yet remain himself. "I've lived with this all my life," Franklin says patiently today. "I cannot be him." But he can inherit his kingdom, although not without a struggle of a different sort. The events that have led him finally to sit at his father's right hand constitute a story of human frailty and redemption, of the burden of being the son of a famous and charismatic father...
...leaders now fighting for the Central Artery inherit a tradition of patronage, machine politics and liberal policy. This aspect of our city is personified by politicians like the quick tongued William "Billy" Bulger, former president of the Massachusetts State Senate, current president of the University of Massachusetts, host of the state's most important St. Patrick's Day breakfast and brother to Whitey Bulger, who is currently running from...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Scopes trial creationist getting his lumps again in hit Broadway revival of Inherit the Wind...