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...partly because friend Zoglin, the magazine's theater critic, will weigh in with his words in the issue out Monday; partly because I can't find my notes and the Chaperone publicists said they don't have a script for me to consult. Just one thing: it's odd to evoke the memory of old musicals whose books were inane but whose songs were classics in a new musical whose book is stuffy but whose songs are ordinary. They're knowing pastiche, like the ones in The Producers and its progeny, but not, it's fair to say, up there...
...trip” and that the organizers “were looking at things like head count before the piece came out.” But Orin called the timing “bizarre,” adding that “it’s a little bit odd that three days after my story appears, they suddenly discover problems which they hadn’t noticed there before.” Walter L. Keats ’67, president of Asia Pacific Travel, helped organize the tour package and was originally slated to accompany the travelers...
Some U.S. officials reportedly suggested recently that the shame of being the odd man out when G8 leaders convene on his turf in July might help bring Russia's President Vladimir Putin on board over imposing sanctions on Iran because of its nuclear program. But such misguided optimism harks back to the Boris Yeltsin era, when the newly democratic Russia played a subordinate role to the West. If anyone needed more evidence that times have changed - and perhaps retreating to the antagonism of the Cold War days - they only had to listen to Vladimir Putin's state of the nation...
...haute cuisine, but Henry Cumming, a top-flight chef from Britain, knows how to coax out the inner bunny. Plus it's not all salad. There's hummus and guacamole and soups - gazpacho and an unctuous white cream of almonds and garlic. The menu is vegan, barring the odd egg, and the diet is supposed to make our bodies less acidic (bones leach calcium and other minerals if the body strays too far from its naturally alkaline pH of 7.4, says Jeans). It also tames blood-sugar swings. I'm never hungry, despite petite portions and epic helpings of exercise...
...read with bemusement Professor Harvey Mansfield’s comments on course evaluations. His claim that they “introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors” must appear odd in light of recent events. Surely Mansfield disapproved of the Faculty’s (i.e. the “more wise”) pushing out President Summers over the objections of the students (i.e. the “less wise”)? We appear then to be faced with a double paradox: occasionally, the “less wise?...