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Harte said the last four miles of the race were particularly trying for everyone. While many runners--including last year's winner Moses Tanui of Kenya, and four-time champion Bill Rodgers of Massachusetts--succumbed, Harte pushed through the pain in pursuit of a personal record...
...dating women on both coasts. The book was meant to show that not every woman is marriage hungry, that singledom can amount to a grand old time in its own right. Recent months have also brought three books by conservative social critics, notably Wendy Shalit, arguing that no, professional pursuit and sexual gallivanting aren't good for women at all. In fact, such endeavors leave women flummoxed, dissatisfied and dead--if not in a literal Looking for Mr. Goodbar sense, then at least in a metaphoric...
Defenders of Bridget Jones brook no complaints about its portrayal of the single condition because the book is, after all, a comedy. But there was something unsettling--something that drained the satire--in Bridget's pursuit of a boyfriend. It was as though she wanted one not because falling in love is a signature experience of humanity but because she saw a man as a necessary accoutrement of urbane life, like a Prada bag. Her Stateside compatriots aren't nearly as absurd--or maybe they just have better shrinks...
There's honesty and energy in the film's flashbacking pursuit of that thought. But Chris' lasting luck is his wife Marion. Emily Watson plays her as a kind of dream nanny--knowing, ironic, tolerant of his erotic nostalgia and not as prim as she looks. She, and Metroland, finally make a good, subtle case for the bearable weightiness of middle-class being, for the higher morality of muddling through...
...knowledge to be gained in the eighth semester? While the specifics of being at the top of the scale of knowledge are different for everyone (and are only meaningful when you realize them for yourself), there is one, I think, that applies to everyone: Spending four years in pursuit of knowledge is enough to teach you that at college's end, you have even more to learn than when you started. Daniel M. Suleiman '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...