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...wife, daughter, mistress, actress); but Synecdoche, bless it, doesn't demean or dismiss any of them - except maybe the family shrink (Hope Davis), who tells Caden her new best-selling book can help him, then charges him $45 for a copy. And this artist's problem is not the lack of an idea but his fidelity to it as it grows and grows and splits its seams. It's become a child he can't control, the alien seed he spawned. Any creative person, indeed anyone who's launched some grand project (renovating a home, planting a garden, starting...
...Sarkozy's appeal to reinvent capitalism - or even British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's call to reform the international financial system around "the agreed principles of transparency, integrity, responsibility, good housekeeping and co-operation across borders." Yet many observers say that even a partial move away from the reckless lack of oversight that enabled the current crisis would constitute progress...
...antiforeigner is insulting. Conservatives welcome immigrants of all cultures to America's shores just as liberals do; they part ways on who should foot the bill and how immigrants should be integrated into society. If Obama loses the election, rather than revealing our views on race or our lack of receptiveness to other cultures, it will show that Americans prefer governance from the middle - not from the far left. Kathleen Sliwiak, Gaithersburg, Maryland...
...Before Kagan assumed the deanship of the Law School in 2003, most faculty members were hired as assistant professors, and the majority of junior faculty would eventually receive tenures offers. In the two decades preceding Kagan, Harvard made only 18 lateral hires. The lack of poaching resulted from the fact that the faculty was often divided over prospective appointments, according to Einer R. Elhauge ’82, a professor at the Law School. “It was more conflicted than now—I think we had a harder time agreeing,” said Elhauge, citing both...
...gaping American wound - an afterthought. He has done this by introducing a quality to American politics that we haven't seen in quite some time: maturity. He is undoubtedly as ego-driven as everyone else seeking the highest office - perhaps more so, given his race, his name and his lack of experience. But he has not been childishly egomaniacal, in contrast to our recent baby-boomer Presidents - or petulant, in contrast to his opponent. He does not seem needy. He seems a grown-up, in a nation that badly needs some adult supervision...