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Kolarik has been a microcosm of Harvard’s season: sometimes brilliant, usually unlucky and consistently streaky. He scored 11 points in the season’s first seven games, but endured a nine-game goal-scoring drought that lasted from December to February. Now, he has four goals in his last six games...
Harvard’s recovery to beat the Dutchmen was a microcosm of a down-and-up weekend for Smith, whose strong effort came on the heels of a disappointing Friday—a loss to RPI in which he did not play...
...official document accepted in principle by the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority. However, it envisages a peace process based on conditionality and sequentialism, and it is these elements that render the process fragile. Each interim commitment becomes the focal point for the next dispute and a microcosm for the overall conflict, leading to endless accusations. Lacking a clear vision of where they are heading, both sides treat the different phases as an opportunity to optimize their bargaining positions. How, then, can the Palestinians be asked to participate in an endeavor whose final destination is totally unknown...
...midst of the 1998 Lewinsky sex scandal, Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a distinguished classics professor at a small Massachusetts liberal arts college, embroils himself in a microcosm of similar scandal and tragedy. One chance comment in class provokes an accusation of racism that culminates in his resignation and the death of his wife. Based on the novel by Philip Roth, The Human Stain follows Silk through four major stages of self-identification: anger, denial, acceptance and confession. A self-made man in every sense of the word, Silk’s success in life embodies a severely warped version...
...midst of the 1998 Lewinsky sex scandal, Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a distinguished classics professor at a small Massachusetts liberal arts college, embroils himself in a microcosm of similar scandal and tragedy. One chance comment in class provokes an accusation of racism that culminates in his resignation and the death of his wife. Based on the novel by Philip Roth, The Human Stain follows Silk through four major stages of self-identification: anger, denial, acceptance and confession. A self-made man in every sense of the word, Silk’s success in life embodies a severely warped version...