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...comfortable as his own legend-maker. In an attack by the Frisians, he humiliates one warrior but doesn't kill him; "Give him a gold piece and send him home. He has a story to tell." Before confronting Grendel, he strips himself naked. (Battling in the buff is a major motif this year, in 300 and Eastern Promises.) As Beowulf leaps from one end of the Hall to the other, the movie treats you to more cutesy-poo hide-the-penis shots than in Bart's skateboard ride in The Simpsons Movie...
...figures. The increase according to these numbers is 4.1 percent, slightly above the national average of three percent, and slightly higher than Harvard’s 2005-06 figure of 3.5 percent. The president of the Woodbridge International Society also said that she had not noticed a major change in the growth of foreign applications. “As far as I know, admissions rates for international students have stayed about the same,” said Rebecca R. Gong ’08. Nationally, the increase in foreign students brings international enrollment back towards the all-time high...
...pieces of her heart will stay together / But ain’t no gyroscope can spin forever, yeah.” Morrison’s vocal lines are still descending, but they become a melodic yell, and the guitars have abandoned their dissonant stabs and opened up into rich major chords. It’s a change that’s so unified and so exciting that it doesn’t matter that both of the song’s characters are irreparably damaged. Everyone’s damaged! If you can’t do anything about it?...
...Eliot ’09 won in 1948. Playwright Eugene O’Neill, who took the honors in 1936, attended Harvard for one year before dropping out. Both schools fare far better in terms of Pulitzer prize-winning alumni. Two-time Pulitzer winner David McCullough was an English major at Yale. (He won for “Truman” and “John Adams,” but his earlier collection of essays, “Brave Companions,” is hands-down one of the best books to pass time riding on the T.) Yale...
...many evangelicals are uncomfortable with Prosperity theology, and they may be put off by seeing him on this particular show. And the real risk is with non-Evangelicals. This could be his Dean Scream moment. Not that he would scream. But he's doing well enough now to draw major media. And he may find himself standing next to a 'prophet' or an 'apostle' getting a message from God. On national...