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...don’t know you; I don’t know your relationship to alcohol,” said Judge A. Peter Anderson. “But it was such to bring you here. You might be saying to yourself, I go to Yale, that’s not going to happen to me...addiction to drugs or alcohol knows no class, knows no education...
...Peter Skillman had already been fired by Harvard once. It happened halfway through his 30-year tenure as an in-house security guard. Up to that point, he had been happily employed at the Business School working midnights and swing shifts as a patrol officer. In 1989, he was accused of beating up two of his fellow guards, and he was terminated for three months while authorities conducted their...
...leader, giving him a second chance. It comes from responsible citizens working toward and arguing about the principles they want to build their society on. Do not expect the divisiveness to be healed by a leader. That leader, whoever it may be, needs it to win next time. Peter Molnar Pezinok, Slovakia...
...newest film, director Marc Forster makes a drastic break from his previous work, Monster’s Ball. Johnny Depp plays James “J.M.” Barrie, in the process of writing his masterwork Peter Pan. Like most of Depp’s characters, Barrie is more than a little strange. His last play was a flop, his marriage has deteriorated to the point that he and his wife (played by Radha Mitchell) barely speak to one another, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, he prefers the company of his dog and his own imagination to most of his peers...
...town, where state champions become legends and those who fall short become mere pariahs rejected even within their own families. Though American society worships successful professional athletes, the cult following earned by 17-year old high school seniors is for the most part less widespread. Director and co-writer Peter Berg rightly devotes more time to the Panthers’ trials in their daily lives—how they survive in the face of such intense scrutiny—than their gridiron exploits to underscore that this isn’t just a game but a profession...