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Obama, Barack •collapse of huge chunks of the world economy is foreseen by aides to •is described by lawyer Philip Berg - rather hyperbolically, one would have to say - as "the most notorious criminal in the history of this planet...
...both were among the five finalists for Best Motion Picture - Drama. The others were Slumdog, Benjamin Button and one film, Frost/Nixon, that didn't figure prominently in the critics' fancies. (Doubt was aced out of a Best Drama nod, but did earn nominations for all four principal actors: Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and - woo hoo! - Viola Davis...
...Philip Roth is elderly and literary, but even in the throes of depression it’s hard to think of him as melancholy. Except on one topic. This past year, after a string of disappointing books about old age—in one of them, a young biographer threatened the peace of mind of a departed writer and his still-living, aged friend—Roth published a highly acclaimed novel, “Indignation,” set in the 1950s. Nonetheless, whenever he’s asked, he seems to shake his head sadly and admit that...
...Gregory Mankiw in “Sugar Daddy; or, the Over-Generous Benefactor” 2. Philip J. Fisher in “Seduction of a Proper Gentleman” 3. Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 in “Men! Men! Men!” 4. Bret Johnston in “A Literary Dandy” 5. Rev. Peter J. Gomes in “Codpiece in a Convent!” 6. Alison Simmons in “Platonic Forms ... of Passion” 7. Steven Pinker in “Mind Fuck?...
...people, and it takes a lot of courage to say no. But that’s what David always did.” Current Crimson president Malcom A. Glenn ’09 and managing editor Paras D. Bhayani ’09 voiced opposition to the proposal. Philip M. Cronin ’53, one of the three trustees of the Crimson who own the property and the building, also objected. “I worked with [David] over the years in a variety of matters,” said Cronin, a former Crimson president...