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...writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire. The process of auditioning for a commercial seemed like a process where I might learn something that I could write about. It did not occur to me that it might lead to the job. I got called back, and by the third time we talked, I thought, "You can't really be serious." (See the top 10 moments in Apple history...
...well before the suspect passages of her book were publicly scrutinized. Watching rumors quickly transform into absolute “facts” and seeing reasonable people cast sweeping verdicts were frightening events for a freshman born in a totalitarian state, who thought that groupthink would not so easily occur in America...
...secret police files years after a Stalinist regime has vanished,” the editorial board asserted on Saturday. In exactly this manner, journalists should pause before using their power to shock and spread controversy. Their prime responsibility is to exercise caution when making claims and, when blunders occur, to seek a “public recognition and rectification of [their] mistakes,” just as Solzhenitsyn demanded at Harvard 30 years ago. We can only hope that the Russian writer’s prudence will bear out if the insinuations made about his Czech counterpart?...
...Eating disorders are certainly a serious concern. Anorexia has a fatality rate of five to 20 percent according to the National Eating Disorders Association, which is significantly higher than the suicide risk for depression , and it is particularly likely to occur among women of college age. But we have to treat this illness by educating students about risk factors and symptom detection in their peers, not by attempting to keep nutritional information out of sight...
...taken up by Mr. Shi trying to talk to his daughter, sometimes in English, other times in Chinese, but always painstakingly slow. It’s ironic that Mr. Shi spends most his time trying to get his daughter to talk, because the best scenes in the film occur when nobody is talking. They usually involve Mr. Shi puttering around the house—hanging up good luck charms, reading the newspaper, and rummaging through his daughter’s room. Wang loves to show Mr. Shi’s heartbreaking vulnerability and fragility. In one scene, Mr. Shi, shirtless...