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...sure, Coulter is far from the most accomplished conservative presence in America today. Even post-OxyContin, Limbaugh has greater reach; Sean Hannity has his own TV show; old-guard guys like William Kristol and George Will have more power in Washington. Countless conservative scholars--Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, Richard Posner--write with greater intellectual heft...
Boas portrays Bearing’s intensity and anguish, stressing the hostile, hubristic, and threatened side of her personality, a choice that is in keeping with the script but also somewhat alienating for audiences. Her medical counterparts, Dr. Kelekian (John D. Boller) and Dr. Posner (Lenny M. Braman, HLS ’05) are brisk and impersonal. Posner is slightly warmer than Bearing yet less self-aware; unlike Bearing, has no idea that he should be more sympathetic, even as he describes his patient as “very unresponsive” on a clipboard before realizing that said patient...
Still, the play avoids the trap of caricature; Posner is genuinely excited about cancer and poetry, while Kelekian and Bearing share a moment complaining about the ineptitude of their respective students...
...Posner says that during his time at Columbia, he has never seen any of the behavior described in the film...
...times I’ve ever seen anyone break etiquette in a classroom at Columbia, it was always a student being abrasive and emotional,” Posner wrote in an e-mail...