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...sober moral questions it poses and its close-to-elegant style, pretends to high literary seriousness while offering its readers - millions upon millions of them in the 37 countries where it has been translated - plenty of lubriciously rendered romps in the hay with a woman in her mid-30s and an eager young man in his mid-teens. Stephen Daldry's film, written by David Hare, is faithful both to the novel's plot and to its higher aspirations. This is not an entirely good thing. On the other hand - and somewhat surprisingly - it is not an entirely bad thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reader: Love and the Banality of Evil | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

Thirty-thousand, two-hundred, ninety six Subway restaurants are currently open around the world, and Harvard Square will soon be host to another. A Subway Restaurant will open in The Garage “somewhere in mid-January” if all goes according to schedule, said Sanjay Kansagra, the future owner of the store. “The plans are done, now it is matter of just building it,” said John P. DiGiovanni, president of Trinity Property Management, the firm that owns The Garage. According to DiGiovanni, the construction process generally takes a month...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Subway To Debut in The Garage | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...which he approaches his campaign. Without explaining his reasoning, James stipulated that the location of his office remain undisclosed.One of the few times when James gave a belting laugh—after demonstrating his imitation of a disk jockey’s voice—he abruptly cut off mid-chortle and again became soberingly serious. When asked why he is running for the presidency, James says that he has always wanted to see the UC election go in a different direction.“But when you’re expecting someone to stand...

Author: By Ellen X. Yan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: James, Wong Eager To Serve | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...officers of the Harvard chapter notified 96 seniors of their eligibility for induction in mid-October. The initial group was chosen based on grades, difficulty of class work, and intellectual experience, according to chapter president and Leverett House Master Howard Georgi...

Author: By Emma R. Carron, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Accepts 48 | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

Asia has been plagued by periodic bird flu outbreaks among its poultry population since the mid-1990s, the largest outbreak occurring in 1997 when eighteen people in Hong Kong came down with the virus. Outbreaks also occurred in 2001 and 2002, leading to the culling and destruction of millions of possibly-infected fowl. By 2003, the strain had spread to much of Asia's bird population. "It remains a serious pandemic threat," says Bridges. "It has a 100% mortality rate among poultry, but so far we are not seeing the type of molecular changes required to jump to humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flu Vaccine | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

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