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...vaguely chronological order. Though Proust always insisted his masterwork was not a roman à clef, Davenport-Hines shows the parallels between Proust and his fictional narrator, real figures and the fabricated ones. Born in Paris to a rich Jewish mother and a Catholic physician father, Proust was a nervous, asthmatic child who grew up to be, in Davenport-Hines' phrase, "the most famous valetudinarian in literary history." His mother was his life's obsession. His father, ironically, made his reputation studying emotional disorders. Proust did military service before throwing himself into the Paris salon scene. There he painstakingly extracted every...
...members of the press flew into Islamabad on an accompanying press charter. This planned capital, with its broad boulevards, was completely empty save for troops lining the road. Still, when the U.S. embassy official on my bus urged us all to stay close to our hotel, there was some nervous laughter. The press corps may fancy itself to be tough, but no one needed persuading to stay within well defined security zones...
...made him look better and better in hindsight. Neil Rudenstine is a very kind and courtly man who will be remembered for his prodigious fundraising and support for African-American studies, but who often appeared overwhelmed by the job of running Harvard. (After Rudenstine suffered what looked like a nervous breakdown and took a leave four years into his tenure, Newsweek put him on the cover with the line “Exhausted.”) Larry Summers has a brilliant mind and bold, forward-looking ideas for Harvard, but, to my mind, suffered from a leadership flaw that...
...there is any message that Bush should take forward after the blistering he got last week from virtually the entire Republican Party, it is that "Trust me" is no longer a viable political strategy. That's because nervous Republicans don't--at least not when their futures are at stake. With Bush's bungling of the ports controversy, they are starting to say privately that they cannot afford to risk their fate on the agenda and instincts of an unpopular President who never has to face the voters again. What began months ago as a routine government-approval process...
...good outside shooting team,” Delaney-Smith said. “[In Philadelphia], they hit out of their mind things that were not in the scouting report. They can take the three but their statistics don’t lead you to be nervous about their three.”A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THINGSThis season marks the first time in a while that Harvard has been out of the Ivy Title hunt with two weeks remaining in the season. The Crimson has won two of the last three titles and finished in a tie for second...