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...just didn’t feel well or something went wrong at work or I just had a break-up—he was always there,” said Zoe Teegarden, a Harvard Hillel community member who said she was a close friend of Meyers. “Present. He was always present—that’s the perfect word to describe Isaac. He didn’t judge. He just accepted everybody.” Members of the Hillel community held a vigil yesterday in Meyers’ memory, where Teegarden and a handful of Meyers?...
...well, maybe our imaginary production executive is right. The elements for a successful comedy are all present and accounted for in Drillbit Taylor and doubtless word of them has been buzzing along the Internet for weeks. But elements are what Hollywood makes marketing campaigns out of, not entertaining movies. And the fact that this movie has been sent into the world on Easter weekend, when much of its population is preoccupied with piety, probably betokens a certain loss of faith in its cheerless impieties...
...misfortune of John Adams the man, however, is the good fortune of HBO's John Adams the miniseries. Because viewers have little preconception of the man, the miniseries is free to do what history should, which is not just reproduce the past but reflect on the present. Add a little diversity and subtract a few powdered wigs, John Adams says, and we're having essentially the same arguments we had more than 200 years...
...contains an incredible 9 trillion gal. (35 trillion cu L) of water. But the dry sky above and the rock all around reinforce the inescapable fact that this land was a desert, is a desert and always will be a desert. When the American explorer J.C. Ives visited the present location of the Hoover Dam in 1857, he declared the land "worthless," adding, "There is nothing there to do but leave." Today's residents are hoping there's another choice...
...said. He also said he was supportive of the shift toward University-wide fundraising. “I think the ‘every tub on its own bottom’ philosophy is very much a part of Harvard’s history, but not a part of its present,” he said. —Staff writers Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Jamison A. Hill can be reached at jahill@fas.harvard.edu...