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Perhaps that’s because, as I’ve been slowing down, I’m also preparing to say goodbye. After nearly 22 years in Cambridge, there are geologic layers of Ned all over this city, places that remind me of moments of my past everywhere I go. I don’t have any regrets now about staying home for college, but soon it will be time to move on—I need to explore. Still, I’m a bit apprehensive, naturally, about the people I’ll be leaving behind...
Many Harvard students remind me of the demanding grandmother. You have a hard time knowing when to be satisfied, even after you’ve gotten what you thought you had wanted. Of course, unwillingness to rest on one’s laurels can clear a path to great achievements. But at the level of personal happiness, that path can become pathology. Many of my students face the future with a mixture of expectation and dread, each day more attuned to the goals that might elude them (and the embarrassment that might ensue) than to the ones they?...
...male victim, suspended naked in midair by wires, comes close to losing his family allowance. In all this Miike's slick and self-aware technique serves to accentuate the mental problems of his characters and their emotional disfunction?the occasional child's sobs off screen are intended to remind the audience that these are the acts of sick children produced by the twisted society Japan has become. Miike doesn't always make you understand, but he sure knows how to make you feel...
...locals relax at some of the readily available tables in the front room; those who wish to see and be seen make their way through the line to the back room, where backwards white baseball caps abound. The young clientele and pushy mob around the bar may remind some upperclassmen of nights at the late Crimson Sports Grille, particularly as Tufts girls dressed to the nines sashay around Tufts guys pretending not to notice...
...whose careers and whose lives were cut short defending America. So this year, as American troops are fighting in Afghanistan—and perhaps soon, in Iraq as well—the national anthem, and the sight of the stars and stripes whipping in the fresh spring wind, should remind every fan of the sacrifices others made, and are making to protect the land of the free and the home of the brave...