Word: musts
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...employees, perhaps as many as 1,000 people. The Living Wage Campaign--a coalition of students, workers, and faculty who are working to eliminate the problem of low-wage labor on campus--has demanded "that anyone who works at Harvard, whether directed employed or subcontracted to an outside company, must be paid a living wage of at least $10 per hour, adjustable for inflation." Not an end in itself, this is where any conversation about economic justice at Harvard should begin...
...grandma presides over the serving area, Death must preside over the dining area. (That's his life-size picture looming down on you from the wall, dressed in black robes and wearing the face of former Harvard President Charles Eliot--Eliot was the creator of the QRR, after all). The checker's table becomes Cerberus, sternly overseeing the passage of souls (read: diners) from savory-baked life to oak-paneled afterlife. The dining hall proper is like a vast tomb where emptiness oppresses from all sides. The endless rows of uninviting conference tables (sprinkled with too-few friendly round tables...
However, there do seem to be some consistent problems in making novel-based films. Often when adapting a novel to film, sacrifices must be made in plot, character and, to some degree, style. Most novels are simply too long or too complex to be satisfactorily encompassed by a two, or perhaps three-hour film (even a single Shakespearean play, such as Hamlet, can last up to four hours in its entirety...
...However, short stories seem to translate well to film, sometimes becoming something even better than the original work. Where a novel must be condensed, short stories must be expanded, gaining a more complex plot, more characters and more detail. Also, most short stories develop an overarching theme rather than character, so the film version can spend more time on the development of these characters...
...Perennially jealous of the college students he sees on the subway ("It must be grand to be a student with nothing to do but listen to professors, read in libraries, sit under campus trees and discuss what you're learning.") McCourt talks his way into New York University by giving an admissions officer a sampling of his reading list, heavy on Dostoyevsky and Melville, with a smattering of Tolstoy...