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...amassing a case against Badian, other hedge funds and now possibly Refco. Refco declined to comment. Badian didn't come to the door when a TIME reporter rang his bell. His lawyer in the civil cases, Perrie Weiner, says that the suits against Badian have "not a shred of merit" and that courts have consistently dismissed such cases...
...there is a clear power structure at work, with male members controlling a guest space populated by male and female guests hand-picked at the door. None of these facts are particularly pretty. Some of them seem to fly in the face of what most Americans believe about gender, merit, and discrimination. In my experience, members of clubs do discuss these issues frequently and seriously, and not merely in hypothetical terms. Why, then, if I know and agree with some of these common objections, am I comfortable being a member of a final club? First of all, no acceptable alternative...
...prostitution. Recent research suggests that our college town hosts thousands of tons of chemical toxins and carcinogens, making it one of the most environmentally disastrous parts of the Commonwealth. Clearly, my naive belief that the grass would be greener on the other side turned out to be entirely without merit. There is actually very little grass left in Cambridge. Perhaps the most troubling aspect of urban life, however, is crime. Through the joint efforts of bicycle gropers and the armed bandits who periodically rob Harvard undergraduates, an evening in Cambridge has become an adventure suitable only for the brave...
...forms of songwriting, Darnielle demonstrated that, first, his songs could themselves be the story (as in “Tallahassee”), and, second, that songs written to a story (as in “The Sunset Tree”) need not forfeit their right to artistic merit...
...he’s not a slick, Hollywood soul-sucker, and he’s not a rabid fanatic, what sort of species is McCallum? He’s a rare chimera: someone who fervently believes that the films are legitimate art, but that their artistic merit comes from the very flashiness and simplicity for which they are so often written off as pieces of crass commercialism.Before addressing the more theoretical elements of McCallum’s approach to filmmaking, two sure-to-be-controversial revelations are in order. First off, even though McCallum emphatically states that...