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...regrets: “At the back of my mind, I thought this is probably closer to something I’d want to be doing after school than anything I’m doing in school right now.”—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
Divorced daddy Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) picks up his daughter after school, looking forward to her weekend visit with him. But he finds little Maya (Abigail Breslin) and half the school in a tizzy; they just had a sex education class that was, perhaps, somewhat premature for some of the students. At home that night she insists that he tell her the story of his marriage to Mommy, which becomes an account of his young manhood and its significant romantic interludes. He insists on giving false names to the three women with whom he was most memorably involved, forcing...
...Washington anytime. Harvey Weinstein was so expert at campaigning when he and his brother Bob ran Miramax Films that, the prevailing wisdom has it, he cajoled his way to a Best Picture prize for the modest Shakespeare in Love over Steven Spielberg's odds-on favorite, Saving Private Ryan...
...think it would be a sad day when I or anyone else considers me wise, because I as a professor am here to learn...and so I don’t see such a dramatic difference between me and the students who are learning,” Ryan said, adding that she had changed courses in the past in response to suggestions offered in the evaluations...
...Department radically transform its approach to diplomacy, in line with the fact that America's most urgent foreign policy challenges today lie far beyond the genteel diplomatic circuit of the industrialized world. A former top Republican congressional aide who this month completed an assignment as an adviser to Ambassador Ryan Crocker in Iraq blasted the State Department's performance there in a valedictory memo. "The foreign service is not competent to do the job that they have undertaken in Iraq," wrote Manuel Miranda, citing "an excuse-making culture," "willfully negligent if not criminal" management, a "built-in attention deficit disorder...