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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology does not feel the same way. It has abruptly accepted the resignation of its dean of admissions after she confessed that she didn't have the undergraduate or graduate degrees she had added to her r??sum over the 28 years since she joined the M.I.T. admissions office. (It came out later that she did have a bachelor's degree--but not from the college she listed.) A fake r??sum destroyed Marilee Jones' career. But she feared, with some reason, that her true r??sum might have torpedoed it from the beginning...
...apparent. Much of the film punts around vague questions: Is it morally acceptable to avenge a death by killing your oppressors? Collaborating with them? Sleeping with them? The screenplay doesn’t develop these ideas because Verhoeven understands that sex and violence sell better than ethics. His directorial r??sumé is a testament to this philosophy, as among his hits are “RoboCop,” “Basic Instinct,” “Starship Troopers,” and of course, “Showgirls.” Why has this...
...noble idea is at the heart of “The Savage Detectives,” a book so good that it is not only its own justification, but a justification for literature itself. Due in large part to this novel—the 1998 winner of the prestigious R??mulo Gallegos prize, now available in an English translation by Natasha Wimmer—Bolaño, who died in 2003, became known as the most important and influential novelist in the Spanish-speaking world, a writer mentioned in the same breath as Borges and Garc?...
...beef. For the record, I didn’t vote for Bush, I’m allergic to horses, and I’m a vegetarian. And while I may use the word “y’all,” I can at least pronounce my r??s, which is more than I can say for the majority of New Englanders...
...We’re not advocating an ‘R?? rating or any other specified action,” said SPH Associate Dean and co-presenter Jay A. Winsten. “We’re leaving that up to the film industry...