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...self-declared best and brightest, I would suggest that we have a duty to master the baser instincts of our nature—including rising above the inevitable impulse to automatically declare ourselves better than some group of “outsiders.” Don’t castigate those with whom you are not familiar, for rather than sounding enlightened and intelligent, you come across as precisely the things you accuse others of being: stupid, unworthy, and, worst of all, really, really, annoying...
Most people think of Updike and Cheever as the masters of postwar American suburbia. Add Yates to the master list. His greatest novel is a bitterly funny account of lethal disappointment in the Connecticut suburbs in 1955. That may sound like a common enough predicament, but Yates gives it devastating force...
...Olympic gold medalist Ekaterina Gordeeva wanted hotel rooms because they are coming with their children. “If we can give it to them, we give it to them,” said Kukunova. “If not, we ask if they would mind staying with a master or in a guest suite.” Guest suites exist in each House to accommodate visitors and come with maid service. Other skaters will be staying with masters in Leverett, Eliot, and Lowell, and in the Winthrop, Kirkland, and Eliot guest suites. Two of the skaters, Morgan Matthews...
...peek into Sachs’ research group is enlightening at times and disappointingly stiff at others. Miller profiles each of the major players in the field: Kazuhiko “Kaz” Yamada, the Japanese master surgeon; David K.C. Cooper, the old-school British surgeon; and Sachs himself, a New York native who was nearly crippled by polio in the 1940s. But, save a few revealing outbursts in group meetings, Miller has trouble getting any of the players to go off-message, quoting formal-sounding statements in multi-paragraph chunks. They escape from their interviews with their press armor...
...celebrated hip-hop artists MF Doom and Danger Mouse (known collectively as Dangerdoom); and, oddly enough, the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programs (see review on page B7). Featuring such guests as Ghostface Killah (of Wu-Tang Clan fame) and Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s Master Shake, the album is unusual to say the least, but unusual in an undeniably entertaining way. The party is being put on by Adult Swim, and more specifically their college representatives from Harvard, Ross E. Arbes ’08 and Robert I. Padnick ’09. With...