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...Seattle hotel where one of Burke's multiday seminars for the bereft is under way, to remind him that a) he, Silver, is not A-O.K., b) he thinks Burke shouldn't be either and, finally, c) just because Martin Sheen reveals his teeth doesn't mean he's smiling at you. After this scene I sat up, jotted down "thrown for a loop" in my notebook and commenced hoping he'd come back...
...Probably not. But this is the name of the game in the Browniverse: at its most basic level the Brownian fantasy is that coincidences aren't just chance, and things are not just things: they mean something. Brown's hero, Robert Langdon, is after all a symbologist (following a branch of human intellectual inquiry that - it cannot be stated enough times - doesn't exist, at Harvard or anywhere else). Beneath his learned, oddly asexual caress, objects come to life and become symbols. A V isn't just a V, it's a chalice, a symbol of the eternal feminine. Chaos...
Reclaim hot breakfast! Harvard may have taken away your right to a hot meal every morning, but that doesn’t mean you have to go without. Somewhat out of the way from Harvard’s central partying scene, Ihop provides a down-to-earth, value-friendly atmosphere, where no one will judge you for scarfing down that omelet, bacon, and pancakes. And the biggest perk: they take Crimson Cash...
...Granted, Wolf’s militant excoriations have significant cultural resonance, even to women who aren’t convinced that their stilettos mean they’ve done something wrong. Despite our society’s emphatic assertion that an objective standard of beauty exists, the concept is actually grounded in female inadequacy. Regardless of how many hours, dollars, and brain cells women spend, there will always be an un-pluckable hair, an un-erasable wrinkle, and an un-toneable ounce of cellulite to eliminate. The pursuit of beauty is eminently frustrating (and eminently profitable) for the very reason...
...endowment, the Harvard community now knows the true magnitude of the impact the global economic crisis is having on our operations. Here and across the country, university officials are adapting to a “new normal baseline” of funding. But precisely what does that mean to us when Harvard’s apparent baseline is still $26 billion...