Word: losses
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...more to Volpi’s sarcastic spin on Stalin and other Cold War stars than to Volpi’s own half-hearted original cast, whose members are clearly little more than vehicles for Volpi’s heavy-handed, utterly sterile critique of greed and the postmodern loss of individual identity. Even if Volpi intended for the storyline to play second fiddle to his socio-political commentary, poor character development renders these auxiliaries distracting and unnecessary at best.The decidedly scientific lens that Volpi employs to dissect human nature, however, partly compensates for the novel’s lack...
...featuring special Brain Break events. Last night, Lowell House had an ice cream sundae bar as part of what the House Newsletter called a “Study Card Signing Event.” Many students have said that the enhanced Brain Break does not make up for the loss of hot breakfast, which was a casualty of the $77 million budget cuts FAS announced in May. “I am a huge fan of hot breakfast, and the fact that they took it away was very, very sad,” said Chris J. Loney...
...discussion closed, Wilson addressed the complex challenges of the coming century, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity...
...movie with Theron in mind, and told Vogue’s Kevin Conley that he did so because “she can act to silence.” Theron plays Sylvia, whose physical and emotional scars are the keystone to a multigenerational arc of love, betrayal, and loss. As in “Babel,” this arc spans multiple countries as well, straddling the border between Texas and Mexico and leaping up to the coal-gray coast of Oregon. “Babel” was a story of alienation, but no matter how far apart...
...long before Obama started talking about how green is the new gold, many corporations discovered that business was about a lot more than a profit-and-loss statement. At first, the corporate stance was defensive: companies were punished by consumers for unethical behavior. In the 1990s, companies like Nike and Walmart were attacked for discriminatory and unfair labor practices. People became alarmed about "blood diamonds," or "conflict diamonds" - gems mined in war zones and used to finance conflict in Africa. More recently, consumers have become concerned about the sourcing of metals used in computers. The nexus of activist groups, consumers...