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...still some gems to be had this fall. Try Philip Fisher’s English 178x “Modern American Novel” on for size; it’s welcoming to students from all backgrounds, and has a reading list that spans the century, from House of Mirth to Lolita to White Noise. Anything Matthew Kaiser is teaching is always worth a semester (or five) as well; this time it’s English 154 “19th Century English Poetry” and English 90yx “Gay and Lesbian Fiction...
President Bush shouldn't expect much mirth and bonhomie around the dinner table Wednesday when he hosts Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai. While both guests are considered key U.S. allies at the very epicenter of the war on al-Qaeda, neither man considers the other a friend, or even an ally. Karzai accuses Pakistan of enabling the massive Taliban resurgence inside Afghanistan - which has left his fledgling democratic administration unable to function as an effective government in much of the country. On Tuesday, he called on Musharraf to close the radical Islamic madrassa schools...
...where a bunch of 10-year-olds of all colors and shapes are having a physical education class in the autumn sunshine. Within the space of a few minutes you watch them encourage and console one another, succeed and fail, concentrate like demons and muck about amid noise and mirth. And you have to wonder, whatever the arguments to the contrary: Is this a snapshot of something - school life - that children could really be better off without...
...that they are more properly defined as social satirists than ironists proper. Their most raucous displays of irony are when they attend “The Wedding Date” high, just so that they can snicker loudly at Debra Messing or talk about boxed wine with a suppressed mirth so powerful that scientists have yet to fully understand its magnitude. Online discussion forums about “The Royal Tenenbaums” are full of these people.However dryly hilarious these individuals may be, we must not conflate them with the true ironists on campus—members of final...
...turned out to be the beginning." If Balasko's fame is firmly founded on the humorously brusque characters she incarnated in films ranging from the 1978 satire Les Bronzés to the 2001 French version of Absolutely Fabulous, Berry says she's drawn to projects that weave mirth with serious and even sad themes. "That mix is more like life, and I find making that work harder than being exclusively funny or serious," Berry explains. "When it does work, I feel I'm proving myself as an actress." Now that Oued is in theaters, Berry has read...