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...sense of historical and cultural depth. Not that there isn’t enough to hold our attention in the plot’s present. The never-ending whirl of parties and holidays, buoyed on a golden wash of champagne over barely concealed nervous breakdowns, has enough energy to propel the book on its own.Lending a delicate counterpoint to the glitter and noise, the supremely articulate yet supremely uncertain Nick drifts on the current, avoiding neither the glare of his hosts’ spotlights nor the murk of their secret shames. As his surname implies, Nick is forever...
...large component of the U.S. News rankings—25 percent—are peer rankings. In the November 2005 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Colin Diver, the president of Reed College, said that some schools routinely rated their peer institutions into the bottom tier so as to propel themselves upwards. A proliferation of rankings without peer evaluations might lead colleges to more honestly evaluate other institutions...
...four times a week, until we make it," says Nikail, 21, who trekked for a year from Mali to the now denuded woods outside Melilla. "We have no choice: either we get over the fences or we die." That's the sort of desperation that will continue to propel migrants toward the wire...
Cornell, however, may already be looking elsewhere to propel its run at the Ivy League title...
...Slavs!,” according to director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, “words are physical necessities that flood out of every character’s mouth, as blood from a wound.” According to Spillane-Hinks, words propel the play’s plot because, in the particular universe of Kushner’s provocative play, “dialogue is action.” Significantly, the only silent character is a young girl dying of cancer, whose physical decay becomes “synonymous with speechlessness...