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...appealingly sturdy in Casino, is near mute here: a cyber- or cipher-Bond with a loyalty chip implanted in a mechanism that's built for murderous ingenuity. "If you could avoid killing every possible lead," M tells him, "it would be deeply appreciated." As played by Dench with a nice mix of the brusque and the maternal, M must be more than Bond's superior; she is his enabler, protector and shrink. Yet Craig's Bond isn't given to soul-searching. He's a brute acting on instinct: Rambo of Her Majesty's Secret Service...
...from Eric Reyes and Whitney Walker, co-authors of The Perfect Baby Name and, for $75, name consultants. They ignore subjective reasoning like name meanings and associations and focus solely on sounds. Walker told me that the strong s or t in my last name would sound nice repeated in the first name, as would the long-i sound. Whatever I choose, she suggested that I Google the name before settling on it. "Just to make sure it's not a porn star or something," she said...
...real? “I’ve actually wanted to be president since I’ve been about three years old,” Chris told Bumatai. Then he tossed back his head and laughed at the host’s response. It was a nice laugh: short, not too shrill. “At three years old,” Bumatai said, “I wanted to be Big Bird.” When I got into Harvard, my father told me I should watch out for the freshmen who want to be president. There were...
...fault, maybe mine. We got tomato soup and quiche and settled down to break the ice. Caleb chatted cordially in a Texas-inflected accent. He kept using words like “Absolutely!” and “Fantastic!” He seemed very knowledgeable, very nice, very bland. Unlike the freshmen I had interviewed, he did not reek of ambition. I would not have picked him out as a guy with major political ambitions. But there was a certain carefulness in the way he talked to me. He had prepped for our interview by reading...
...that goes by when someone can point and say ‘There’s the failure in your political career, that’s when you got drunk, that’s when you failed a test, that’s when you weren’t nice to someone.’” “He knows exactly what image he’s portraying: an Anglo Conservative Texan.”If Andrea is blithely Machiavellian about Harvard politics, it’s because she knows what it?...