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...individuals settle down in their chairs, it is John Cusack who commands the room. His aloof cool, charmingly erudite quips, and laid-back appearance (sporting the same shocked hair of the film) immediately sets the tone for the interview. In the end, what emerges is a surprisingly profound discussion of the art of acting, musical inspirations, and opportunities for human redemption. But lifting the weighty themes is some lighthearted banter—and at least one mention of a “sexual bus stop in purgatory.”CRYSTALLIZING THE CHARACTERSCusack plays Charlie Arglist, a mob lawyer...
Summers’ compensation became an issue this summer when Conrad K. Harper resigned from the seven-member Corporation, arguing against a 3-percent raise for the University president. “In my judgment, your 2004-05 conduct, implicating, as it does, profound issues of temperament and judgment, merits no increase whatsoever,” Harper wrote in a letter to Summers...
...been undertreated and others whose illness is not quintessentially biological," yet their treatment has amounted to "the relentless pursuit of one physical treatment after another." Parker's experience is that, shortly after starting a course of SSRIs, about 7% of patients feel agitation ranging from moderate to profound, while an additional 1% or fewer show psychotic symptoms. "In my view a serotonergic reaction is a true phenomenon," he says, "and we need to be absolutely aware of it. But it doesn't stop me from prescribing." He starts his patients on low doses and warns them about what they might...
...deeds I had accomplished over a half century ago? What is more, would I ever again see such sincerity, such manifest sincerity and simplicity, as I did from that elderly marine? The answers to these questions were as quick to arrive as they were unpleasant, and I felt a profound sense of insufficiency, one that would only double later that morning as I helped lower the moral remains of my grandfather into the ground.Although my attention had wandered, I was alert enough to gauge from the speaker’s rhythm and timing that his brief eulogy was coming...
...local dining hall doesn't serve tomatoes in winter. "My generation knows how to put food in a microwave and eat in front of a computer screen," says Louella Hill, 24, a food activist at Brown. But she adds, "When someone bites into an heirloom plum, I see a profound awakening...