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...Tallahassee”’s strength is in the inconceivably un-ironic tone adopted by an ironically conceived fictional speaker. On Thursday, Darnielle referred to “Old College Try,” a nostalgic expression of regret and fatalism, as “that part in Tallahassee when everyone’s getting ready for a divorce… [accepting that] ‘that’s the way it’s going...
...curt, even hostile. I would find out later that while I was leaving passive-aggressive voicemails, my grandpa was being eulogized. I didn’t have a meaningful relationship with my grandpa. Family Bar Mitzvahs were the only times I saw him—a fact that I regret. But here are some things I did know about him: he had back problems; he could hardly walk; he was a doctor who served in the Second World War; he was something of a philanderer. He raised my mother and her sister as Reform Jews in Squirrel Hill, sort...
Suddenly last week all those precedents were reversed. After 11 meetings between U.S. and North Korean officials in New York, Pyongyang made a rare apology. In a Korean-language broadcast to the world, the North expressed its "deep regret" for the submarine incident, promised to keep such things from happening again and sweetly offered to "work with others for durable peace and stability on the Korean peninsula." The North Koreans also dropped their demand for the sub in return for the remains of their dead. A day later the North agreed to sit down with the U.S. and South Korea...
Young reflects that his career has taken him far from the domestic bliss of those early days, but his voice evidences no regret or longing—only acceptance...
...while; however, in the absence of a formal relationship, individual students have the potential to galvanize the independent film movement and to support the Brattle. Sara M. Watson ’07, editor-in-chief of Cinematic: The Harvard Annual Film Review, is among the students who would regret the loss of the Brattle. Watson, who attends the theatre at least once a month, says that the Brattle has been “really supportive of us as a film magazine. It would be a huge loss for us as far as a resource and as a venue...