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...Rican student organization and filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about Princeton's affirmative-action failures, leading to the hiring of the first Hispanic dean of students. But she acted in such a constructive way that William Bowen, then university president, helped select her for the Pyne Prize, the highest honor Princeton bestows on undergraduates. Sotomayor's experiences as an outsider in an Ivy League world seem to have made her pragmatic rather than rigid, leading her to thrive within the Establishment even as she sought to improve...
...Fracture.” Though the movie’s promotional posters (Anthony Hopkins smiling sinisterly under the words “I shot my wife”) may lead audiences to believe that the film will be filled with dramatic on-foot chases and explosions, screenwriters Daniel Pyne and Glenn Gers turn “Fracture” into a battle of wits and words, instead. Ted Crawford (Hopkins), a brilliant engineer specializing in “fracture mechanics,” finds his beautiful, younger wife Jennifer is sleeping with another man. He sets up the perfect murder...
...pretty much recycling the rumbling intellectual arrogance of Hannibal Lecter and he seems energetically happy in his work. This time he murders his unfaithful wife, cheerfully admits the crime and acts as his own attorney in the subsequent murder trial. There are two main plot lines in Daniel Pyne and Glenn Gers' screenplay. One is that the police officer investigating the case is, in fact, the dead woman's lover, which opens the possibility of doctored evidence. The other is the cat-and-mouse game Crawford plays with the prosecutor, Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling). Beachum is eager to close what...
More prevalent than toppled towers were fallen trees. Charles C. Pyne, then-assistant to the administrative vice president, said the “most extensive damage” by Hurricane Carol at Harvard had been wreaked upon the Yard’s landscape...
...swept into Los Alamos. Lost in the finger pointing that followed was the fact that the fire would probably not have proved so dangerous had fuel loads in the adjacent forest been lower. And this is precisely why thinning can be useful. As Arizona State University environmental historian Stephen Pyne sees it, thinning is just a tool for "re-creating a habitat for fire...