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...problem with many Hollywood biopics is that they assume the audience cares about celebrities as people. They wallow in sad childhoods, sadder marriages--blah, blah, boring, boring--forgetting that we love stars for their artfully fabricated personas. We like our celebrities to be celebrities, thank you very much. If they wanted to be real people, they should have gone into retail...
...what’s funny in a sad way is that this tendency stretches on, in various manifestations and to different degrees, long after we’ve left our respective Ivy cocoons. In the “real world” (quotes intended), it’s probably not uncommon to find a more subdued, yet still pointed culture of good-natured ribbing and “har har” humor along these same lines...
...English department’s decision to re-invite poet Tom Paulin to Harvard is at once sad and disgraceful ( News, “In About-Face, English Dept. Re-Invites Anti-Israeli Poet,” Nov. 20). In light of Paulin’s pearls of wisdom and insight, the English department has decided that it must protect his freedom of speech and invite him to campus. Does the English department really need reminding that Paulin’s legal right to free speech does not in any way entail an obligation on Harvard’s part...
...denied the right of a University citizenship to decide for ourselves. No argument of analogy, moral or otherwise, is a sufficiently acceptable substitute for participation in a real argument. I associate myself with the views on this particular point of Professors Dershowitz, Fried and Tribe, and think it a sad day for our “Republic of Letters” when we cannot hear that which we are likely to disagree. Who next will be deemed to be “controversial,” and by whom? Surely we can and must do better than this...
Earlier research had shown that some monks were directly involved in corrupt practices like owning brothels or gambling parlors. From interviews with academics, local officials and international volunteers, Prasse-Freeman got a sense of how enormously sad the situation in Thailand has become...