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...worse. Though the U.S. had lifted economic sanctions against Pakistan and promised $50 million in U.S. aid, the unrest continued. Last week large crowds moved through the streets of Peshawar and Rawalpindi, burning effigies of Bush. "We grossly underestimate the perils to Pakistan that this represents," says Central Asian scholar S. Frederick Starr. "If you attack, you activate the Afghan fifth column in Pakistan, you activate the Pakistani radical and terrorist organizations, you put the educated, globalist modernists in Pakistan extremely on the defensive, and you make almost inevitable a shift further in the direction of the conservative Islamic republic...
...Larry’s list of achievements from his eight years in the Clinton administration is a long one. And his academic work could one day win him the Nobel Prize. I could have written about either. But if you want to talk not only about Larry Summers the scholar or Larry Summers the policy wonk, but Larry Summers the person, there is little that says as much as the fact that when he had his moment at the top of the nation’s economic policy hierarchy, he put the fight to alleviate global poverty...
Harvey, who had been exposed to French cinema at the Cinematheque while studying at the Sorbonne as a Fulbright scholar, brought a distinctly international flavor to the Brattle during a time when most Americans had seen very few non-Hollywood films. Harvey and Haliday helped rekindle interest in American classics that had long been forgotten. They also established the important Janus Films, Inc., the main distributor of avant-garde films in the U.S. until 1966, when it was forced to close after too many directors were snatched up by Hollywood. Harvey and Haliday brilliantly juxtaposed old Hollywood classics...
...Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English Emeritus at Wellesley College, Ferry is an esteemed scholar and poet. Critics have often noted his ability to bring the poetry he is translating—whether an ode of Horace, an eclogue of Virgil or a passage from Gilgamesh—into remarkably fresh and immediate English idiom...
...imagine it, and many of the translations Ferry read attested to his remarkable success in this regard. One of the odes of Horace Ferry performed, for example, was a lament addressed to Horace’s friend and fellow poet Virgil over the death of their friend, the respected scholar Quintilian. In Latin, the poem has Horace’s characteristic untranslatable syntactic gymnastics; but it is also a gripping dialectic on the nature of loss and mourning. Ferry’s reading preserved the intense emotional experience of the poet, even as Horace’s linguistic virtuosity...