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Politicians should not sacrifice their values for the sake of delivering tangible results to their constituents, former Mass. State Senator Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 told a room of Law School students last night. “I think it’s essential that anyone in politics wrestle with the difficult trade-off of being an effective person and being someone who actually stands for something,” said Barrios, who left the Senate in July to become president of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation. About 15 students listened intently as Barrios...
...Musharraf have earned her the ire of party faithful who say she has sold out in order to save her own skin. "She's making a deal with a dictator," says Ali Nazar Shah, a schoolteacher from Larkana. Bhutto is aware of these allegations, but says that for the sake of Pakistan it is better to be practical. "We believe the nation should leave the past behind and look towards a better future," she said in a London press conference announcing the reconciliation deal...
...being provocative merely for the sake of it. If the lovemaking in the director's Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain represented a kind of prelapsarian idyll - a state of innocence that can never be recaptured - here the physical act takes his characters to a darker and more frightening place. "I think sexuality is worth exploring because it's the ultimate performance," says Lee, who is hanging out in a luxury hotel suite a few hours before the film's red-carpet Hong Kong premiere on Sept. 22. "The chemistry can be quite complicated. Sex is very much a performance. But that...
...internal struggles to reject the temptations of fame and glory in order to cleave to rules and strictures that seem to do him only harm. In Guy’s eventual attainment of happiness, Waugh crafts a condemnation of a modernity that discards traditions simply for the sake of discarding them, a modernity he paints as disordered and disconnected. The dry wit and fantastic characters for which Waugh is famous neatly counterbalance the enormity of Guy’s personal journey, as Waugh raises questions about progress and society that seem just as relevant and countercultural today as they...
...roaming thief, and an old, cantankerous couple—Malamud does it, through a combination of honest internal dialogue and a continuously building sympathy for those with good intentions who inevitably fall on bad luck. When I stopped back home, I thought, for old time’s sake, I’d give “Invisible Man”—which I borrowed from the aforementioned friend, no less—another try. I got about two chapters in before realizing that, no matter how much I tried, it just wasn?...