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...spots to be aggressive." When playing an explosive team like the Lakers, you're going to have to make sacrifices. What does Boston need more, a few loose balls for Rajon Rondo, or the brakes on Kobe Bryant? If they want to hoist the championship trophy, it's the latter...
...quite as funny as it might be, but is as funny as it needs to be. Agreeably directed by Dennis Dugan, conceived by its star, Adam Sandler, and one-third written by him (his co-conspirators are Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow), the picture bears many of the latter's trademark moves. That is to say it is simultaneously a little bit vulgar and a little bit sentimental and comes out as a virtually bullet-proof blend for the mass, summertime audience...
...split between those who see Clinton's candidacy as groundbreaking--as the first of many serious runs by strong women--and those who count backward to Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and conclude that this kind of opportunity comes along only once in a generation. For this latter group, Clinton's candidacy took on a pressing urgency: If not now, when...
...achievements, the greatest have been the recognition of the promise and achievements of women, and of multiculturalism. Like all major transformations, they have come at a certain price. In some ways they have deepened the contrast between undergraduate and graduate education—the latter being inevitably more professional—and tempted many to look at the undergraduates as pre-professionals who need to become specialized early, which is a mistake: the laborious exhilaration of learning a profession should not push aside the broadening of the minds and horizons of the undergraduates, which will make them deeper and subtler...
...historical moments—separated by half a century—that share an unfortunate thematic link. Both have a progressive face masking a regressive mindset that has shifted in the past five decades but has not disappeared. Although the academic left scored a victory in the latter half of the 20th century by making “ethnic” and “regional” studies mainstream, the creation of venues of study for non-Western disciplines or topics is only half the battle. While the 1957 establishment of the Center for East Asian Studies surely...