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Though Thoreson’s transformation of a daunting, forbidding academic competition into a learning experience—not a conduit to success, but a valuable endeavor in and of itself—is perhaps extreme, it is to be admired. Perhaps we mortals can approximate his keen appreciation and earnestness, in other, less punishing ways: the transformation of a routine Core class into a learning experience; of office hours into an engaging conversation; of the library into more than an espresso bar and a place to cram...
...Does Beijing understand and appreciate how complex a society Hong Kong is today, with so many competing interests? TSANG: They understand it very well. In fact, they understand it so well that they are a bit worried whether we are able to come to a consensus, which they are keen to have. When we achieve universal suffrage, it is so important that the majority of Hong Kong people support it, that it does not undermine Hong Kong's position as an international financial center, and that it not undermine our good relations with the mainland. Hong Kong people, whom...
...TIME: You worked a long time with the British, and now with the Chinese. What's the difference? TSANG: We are a lot freer now. The only thing the central government has a keen interest in is our constitutional development. Every other thing, our economic policy, our social policy, is run from here. Before 1997, London would clear those things. Every morning I would spend three quarters of an hour reading telegrams from London, and do another two hours of [related] work. I never do that...
These expats were keen to soak up the local culture, but unlike most Florentines, their interests extended beyond city and national boundaries. Fabbri and Loeser became clients of Ambroise Vollard, the foremost art dealer of the time, based in Paris, and one of the few contemporary champions of Cézanne. The painter, who would be recognized after his death as one of the fathers of modern painting, the direct inspiration for Cubism and Fauvism, spent his twilight years living in isolation in Aix-en-Provence, France, scorned by critics and ignored by the public. Outside attention, when it came...
...Farmer. Farmer is neither despicable nor compelling; he’s not much of anything. His desire for space travel seems selfish. If the film had dwelt in this complexity, it might have been a different (and better) production, but it avoids conflict at all costs. He displays no keen intelligence, and the lackluster treatment of his time in space ensures that even his dream seems hollow...