Word: promotionism
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Ben Crockett ’02, the former Ivy League pitcher of the year for Harvard, is now approximately 70 miles from the big leagues. The former third-rounder had a rough first start for the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, yielding three runs in three and two-thirds innings for...
The Chinese Pop King of All He Surveys Jay Chou deserves a promotion. Chinese-language media refers to the Taiwan-born star as "small heavenly King," in deference to Hong Kong's "big heavenly Kings," four Canto-pop idols who have long dominated the industry. But Chou, who has given...
The slew of new assignments have rapidly changed the face of Mass. Hall. With Spencer’s promotion, five of Summers’ seven vice-presidents are now women.
The prolific Boyle (author of 10 novels and six previous short-story collections) returns to mercilessly test his characters' physical and emotional endurance. Lester, a young bartender, experiences "wrecks both literal and figurative, replete with flames, blood, crushed metal and broken hearts." He isn't alone. In other stories, a...
So much fine material, put to such shoddy use. Like Woody Allen's Zelig, Heaven raids archives for vintage film clips; like Warren Beatty's Reds, it calls on witnesses to describe and argue about its theme. But both sources are compromised by the directorial sneer. Keaton rarely lets a...