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While such a move certainly would be a cataclysmic break with Harvard’s past, it would also do a great deal of good. Public schooling needs a pick-me-up, and Harvard is uniquely primed to administer it. Many high-school students (and parents) dream of a Harvard education, and quite a few try to get a leg up by attending an elite private high school. If, however, they knew that a public-school education would offer a better opportunity, they would be likelier to remain engaged in the state system. A simple word from Harvard and similar...
...Maybe we can find, or invent, a more hopeful trend: the Crisis-Time Pick-Me-Up. In troubled times, Oscar sometimes looks for an antidote (or palliative), and chooses a happy-think movie for Best Picture. It happened during World War II, when the Catholic musical Going My Way won, and in the Vietnam War, with the Dickens musical Oliver, and at the apogee of the Watergate crisis, with The Sting, and just after the Clinton impeachment, when the modest comedy Shakespeare in Love snipered Steven Spielberg's bloody Saving Private Ryan...
...disorder and need treatment. But a significant percentage of American women--12% to 15% by some estimates--are what Nancy Ridgway at the University of Richmond calls excessive buyers. They shop not out of need but out of a desire to make themselves feel better, to give themselves a pick...
Heading into the last weekend of the regular season, a four-game winner-take-all series against league rival Dartmouth, the Crimson baseball team was riding a surprising three-game losing streak in which it was outscored 40-16 and looked to be in need of a pick-me-up. Luckily for Harvard, senior first baseman Josh Klimkiewicz returned to the lineup just in time. Klimkiewicz, who had missed the previous five games due to injury, garnered four hits, including a monster home run, and four RBI’s, to help the Crimson grab the Rolfe Division title...
Bottom Line: If you are an Ejiofor/hard-core “Love Actually” fan, don’t miss it. Otherwise, “Kinky Boots” is only suitable as a brief pick-me-up on a rainy...