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...Outside pressure does not belong in the consideration of the credentials of the university faculty,” said committee member Joan W. Scott of Princeton. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Santa Anas have been midwife to the most destructive wildfires in California's history, from the Great Fire of 1889 to the 2003 disaster that blackened nearly 700,000 acres (280,000 hectares) of forest. Lifelong residents of the state know the Santa Anas and dread them. As Joan Didion has written, "The wind shows us how close to the edge...
...store has come, but also how much Frank Kramer and the store have given back to the community by serving in groups such as the Harvard Square Business Association and sponsoring “Cambridge Reads,” the citywide book club. Before the sign was unveiled, Joan Kramer, Frank’s wife, announced that to commemorate the anniversary and thank the city of Cambridge, the couple would establish a scholarship for a senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School who is about to leave foster care, has lived in housing projects, or has recently been emancipated...
...wait, it gets worse. As the computerized Armada heave into sight, Elizabeth, dolled up in Joan of Arc drag - shining armor, waving a big sword - takes it into her head to rally her troops, drawn up on the shore, impotently waiting for the naval engagement to begin. She is given a noble rallying speech to sing out - her St. Crispin's Day moment - but, putting this as gently as possible, Nicholson and Hirst are not exactly the Bard of Avon, and Kapur is not exactly Laurence Olivier when it comes to staging this emptily rhetorical, entirely fictional moment. The director...
PENN: Let me tell you what I think. My Uncle Bill, who was dying--with 13 cousins that he had all with my Aunt Joan, they had a great, happy marriage for all their years. So there he is on his deathbed. He'd been in a coma a couple of days, and a priest has come in to give last rites. This was the first time, Irish that they are, that my aunt let a tear fall, trusting that his coma would make him unaware of it. Well, open come the eyes, and he sees. He catches...