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...characters are simultaneously subtle in their behavior and irrational in their actions, and the mix feels a little off-balance. The show needs to decide whether it wants to establish a tone of realism or surrealism, and work from there. Personally, I vote surrealism. It’s obvious that the creators of “Breaking Bad” are trying to avoid striking the same tone as “Weeds,” but the plotlines need to be as flip as those of “Weeds” for the show to have a little...
...sticks its name on lots of tacky items,” he said. “Harvard has the Coop and the Kennedy School.” Speaking to The Crimson after the speech, Reiss revealed that there was a lot more to these jokes than may have been obvious. “Harvard is the most distant and chilly education system imaginable,” he said. He had dreamed of coming to Harvard since the age of twelve, yet what he found here failed to engage him.“I wasn’t interested...
...Yorker magazine.Never was Greenhouse’s influence more evident, Toobin said, than the December evening when the Supreme Court passed its ruling on the contentious 2000 presidential election. The decision was released late at night. “There probably were 75 [reporters] there and it was pretty obvious that everyone was looking to Linda for answers on what [the decision] said and what it meant,” Toobin said. “Her status as first among equals was never more clear than on that night.” The eminent reporter’s influence reached...
...that, as everyone knows, is easier said than done. It is perfectly true that nothing lasts forever and that one day the totalitarian rule of Kim Jong Il in North Korea will end. Some analysts suspect he is in poor health, and he does not seem to have an obvious heir within his family. But it is also true that many in the South, with a very shrewd appreciation of the likely costs of unification, dread a collapse of the North - and that Kim has shown himself able to use his possession of nuclear weapons as a way to coerce...
...don’t think it achieved anything for Comcast,” Seltzer said of the people’s presence. “I think it was quite obvious to the commissioners that this was not grassroots support that had just materialized for Comcast...