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...after his now-infamous remarks on women in science were made public, University President Lawrence H. Summers gathered his senior staff inside his Massachusetts Hall office to plot a response. Most of the staff members told their boss that he would have to begin apologizing to the Harvard community. But Summers disagreed...
...accident in high school, an incident that does much to stoke Frey's dark-star energy. They found his claim to have engaged in a melee with police officers when he was arrested in 1992 to have been fabricated. Most disturbingly, in a way (since a major plot point hangs thereon), the Smoking Gun report questions Frey's claim that he spent three months in jail post-rehab...
...curvaceously configured, and she has those remarkably proportioned lips. Naturally, in tabloid land, they figure Scarlett Johansson for the latest in the long line of movie bombshells dating back at least to Jean Harlow. That is an image that her appearance as Nola Rice, tragic fulcrum of the plot Woody Allen has devised for his well-received new movie, Match Point, is bound to enhance?except with Johansson herself: "I never think about that stuff. I like to think of myself as, I go to work and I act. It's my professional life...
...appearance by the aging director himself. Nor does the protagonist, Chris Wilton (Jonathan-Rhys Meyer) seem like a caricature of the auteur. For once, a Woody Allen film seems less about the man, and more about the nature of passion and obsession.Not only has Allen abstracted himself from the plot, but the native New Yorker has also moved his setting from his usual Manhattan streets to a romanticized London, which both affords him a brilliant group of young British actors and opens up cinematographic potential to explore the cavernous Tate Modern and the idyllic British countryside. “Match...
...sent by a couple of captured al-Qaeda big shots, Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, whom we interrogated using techniques that Senators have ostentatiously decried and that sparked the McCain amendment. You connect the dots. And then there were the two attacks thwarted by the NSA eavesdropping: a plot to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge and a plot to bomb pubs and train stations in Britain. Historians will have to tell you about the other plots that were stopped. But the former NSA director already said that 'this program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside...