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...formally began her term yesterday.At yesterday’s reception, both Houghton and Keohane said that the presidential search is still in its initial stages.“We’re just getting started,” said Houghton, the Corporation’s senior fellow.Amid the upbeat mood of the afternoon, Bok joked about one of the most pressing issues facing him. When asked about his ongoing search for someone to fill Kirby’s shoes when the dean steps down in June, Bok responded, “Was I supposed to do that...
American fiction is in asatirical mood. Sometime in the 1990s--David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest makes a handy point of reference for weary travelers-- the earnest, rock-hewn realism of the Raymond Carver school gave way to a more fluid, molten hyperrealism. The widespread conviction that truth has become stranger than fiction triggered a kind of strangeness inflation, an arms race of exaggeration, wherein novelists satirically augment and amp up and overclock their fictions in an attempt to keep up with the sheer implausibility of real life...
...Yankees game in the third row may seem like the ultimate display of affection to you, chances are that it is not to the girl. Watching players like David Ortiz run around in tight pants for three hours will not get her in a romantic mood. You’ll find that the movie theater is the perfect place for a first date. Movies are great because both of you can enjoy yourselves without even talking to each other, thereby reducing the chances that you will screw up. This is a well-known risk management technique they teach over...
...locals have learned to live with it. "Maoists are just people like everyone else," Hada says. "Most of them are poor farmers. Now that there's going to be a new constitution, they might join the system too." If they don't, that system, and the current joyous mood, may not last too long...
...piece that started out the weakest. “Talisman” by Marin J. D. Orlosky ’07, who is also a Crimson editor, began with choppy and un-syncopated choreography that grew more emotive, cohesive and theatrical with the crescendo of the music, the mood and the progression of the story. The best moment was when the figures convened downstage left in a complexly interwoven and motive-driven formation. “Talisman” best utilized the intense musicality of its original score, composed by Inyang M. Akpan ’07 and graduate student...