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...100” difficult. “It was impossible to be completely objective...we recognized that this is a list that people would argue about.” And it shouldn’t be a surprise if 02138 wants to be contentious and talked-about. A close runner-up to the magazine’s numerical title was Vanitas, which Loss says ended up as the name of the magazine’s front section. According to the press release, 50,000 copies of 02138 were mailed free-of-charge to Harvard alumni (FM had to rely...
...degeneration based on repetition. His characters' tragic flaw is that their crimes are their obsessions; they become addicted to expressing the beast within themselves. This makes for explosive moments in an anti-dramatic trajectory, so his his films don't build, they simply accrue - and then collapse, like a runner exhausted at the end of a marathon...
...Harvard-educated diplomat who has served his country for 36 years in New Delhi, Washington and at the United Nations, may face the ultimate diplomatic challenge. After winning Thursday's most recent straw U.N. Security Council straw poll, Ban has solidified his status as the front-runner in the race to replace Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who is required to step down after completing his second term in the job at the end of 2006. If Ban wins - a big if, given the unpredictable politics of Secretary-General races - he'd be the first Asian to lead the U.N. since...
...talks to defuse North Korea's nuclear ambitions, which ultimately yielded almost nothing - although that frustrating experience could be good practice for life in the U.N. But in a race typically won by the candidate most widely viewed as least objectionable, the collegial South Korean is clearly a front-runner...
...shot.” Lane added that he’s training for an eating contest in Boston. Lane manifested his mastery of mastication. He gracefully alternated between the greasy ring in his right hand and the cup of water in his left. While Lane took the measured approach, runner-up Kevin O. Orfield ’10, went the opposite way. “My strategy was to put them in whole,” he said. “At one point I had to reach in with my finger and pull [the doughnut] back...