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...probably won’t pursue i-banking as a long-term career. I might follow the typical path and work for a few years, get an MBA, and land a job where I can lead a semi-normal life. I don’t have much time to ponder my future, because within seconds of my head hitting the pillow, I’m fast asleep, preparing for yet another...
...human that renders comparative genome studies so compelling. As scientists keep reminding us, evolution is a random process in which haphazard genetic changes interact with random environmental conditions to produce an organism somehow fitter than its fellows. After 3.5 billion years of such randomness, a creature emerged that could ponder its own origins--and revel in a Mozart adagio. Within a few short years, we may finally understand precisely when and how that happened...
...artistic vision for the project, the whole stands as less than the sum of its parts. Indeed, the full-length film, especially when shown in a theater, lacks the intimacy engendered by the Sackler screening rooms. Furthermore, the original film leaves the audience with little time to absorb or ponder each shorter episode. Each of the ten-minute films requires so much concentration on the part of the viewer that it is taxing, rather than provocative, to watch 12 in succession. The beauty of the films is in the details, which are revealed only upon multiple viewings; while this...
This incident, combined with the Boston Police’s recent effort to reinstate the Prohibition at this year’s Harvard-Yale football game—and the overwhelming uproar of student indignation that followed—led me to ponder the culture of binge drinking that, make no mistake about it, is alive and well in the Ivy League...
...Still, we are left with plenty of time to ponder the same deep questions that seem to be preoccupying the media savants as they contemplate this harmless little movie: how effective has the Internet campaign for the film been, and what may it bode for the marketing of movies in the future? I suspect that Snakes will probably perform pretty much as most scare movies do - a big opening weekend followed by an alarming fall-off in its second and third weeks. I had a pretty good, regressive time at it - I've always kind of liked movies about airplanes...