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That's quite a feat in Up in the Air, since his character, Ryan Bingham, is a management consultant hired by other companies to tell their employees they're no longer employed. He's a fire-man; he keeps his job by relieving other people of theirs. And he does so with such ostensible sympathy and sincerity, with helpful suggestions on other lines of work, that the victims often leave the interview not wanting to give Ryan the Death Touch. He's a head chopper acting like a grief counselor...
...traces of a mass grave authored by the region’s secret police, the townspeople quickly and mechanically rebury the remains. “The Skating Rink,” with its project still so modest, can only be that reburial.—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
...another creative groove, this record lacks the hints of ragged desperation that made “Beyond” just a shade more wonderful. But don’t call “Farm” a holding pattern. Call it cruise-control. —Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
...soon: Munger, for the reader, is caught in a state of uncertainty. Whether it’s the purgatory of domesticity or the slow hell of fight-damage, Gardener gives the reader an interstitial space where the choice between the two is irrelevant.—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
...move gives students more access to the Hauser Center, but the trade-off is losing a valuable piece of public unprogrammed space,” said HKS student Ryan M. Androsoff who is in his second year of the Masters in Public Policy (MPP) program, adding that much of the student body was surprised when the change was announced...