Word: perilousness
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...serving the elites of New England towards its new role as the undergraduate portion of the world’s foremost research university. Doubtless, the shift will continue, and will probably accelerate—but administrators, alumni and students alike should recognize that Harvard abandons its past at its peril...
...more manageable 7%. But China's policymakers may lack the monetary tools to engineer a soft landing, and the specter of a Chinese crash is contributing to fears that the global economic recovery-already under pressure from skyrocketing oil prices and rising interest rates-is in peril. Asian stock markets are throwing off storm warnings: on May 10, the region's bourses tumbled by as much as 5.7%, registering their steepest one-day declines since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, partly because of fears that a slowdown in China could damage regional economies...
FILM: Kids in peril; the Olsen twins grow...
...slightly different rhythm can be detected in the foreign offspring-in-emotional-peril movies coming to theaters now. In the elegant and understated Strayed, Andre Techine uses a grim, largely offscreen rumble--of war. A soldier's widow, Odile (the unimprovable Emmanuelle Beart), and her two children, 13-year-old Philippe (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet) and 7-year-old Cathy (Clemence Meyer), are trapped, unable to move on a refugee-clogged road from Paris in 1940. When their car is destroyed, a mysterious youth, Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel), appears and leads them to a deserted chateau...
...felony, rehab—he will be a liability. Unless the choice is almost inhumanly scandal-free, nothing else matters. Senator Kerry, you could object to this rule, you could (rightly) argue that it drives many qualified, capable people out of public life. But ignore it at your peril...