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...turn into a bat and stuff?” wonders starry-eyed Darren Shan (Chris Massoglia), the newest vampire-adolescent to hop aboard the young-adult bloodsucker bandwagon. “No,” replies his vampire mentor, the cloaked and mysterious Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly), “that’s bullshit.” This is not the only instance in Paul Weitz’s new film, “Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant,” in which Crepsley correctly associates his young apprentice with tedium, puerility...
...Rogoff, which states “the allegations about your conduct, described in the article and the mounting mass emails, were without any substance” and concludes, “You are, and always have been, an upstanding member of our community, a wonderful colleague, and a valuable mentor to many students...
...Hong’s mentor and high school teacher, Rick Norton, explains, “In cycling, unlike in other sports, you make only incremental gains each year you train. It takes a special kind of discipline to continue training once you encounter difficulties, reach a plateau in your improvement, or when the gain you make is much smaller than the amount of work you put into...
...clicking. The founder of the “Greg Mankiw Fan Club” describes the professor’s appeal as personal as well as academic. “If you read [the blog] a lot, you get an idea of his personality. I do consider him a mentor. I think he’s a really nice guy, a really good guy, some one to look...
...particular, we are deeply disappointed by the article’s portrayal of Professor Kenneth Rogoff. We find the slanderous accusations cited in the article completely at odds with the devoted teacher, mentor, and department member that all of us have come to know. It is unfortunate that Harvard’s policies and responsibility to protect its students’ privacy prevented it from discrediting the e-mail’s outrageous claims and led to such a one-sided and false picture of an upstanding member of the Harvard community. The Crimson’s readers deserve better...