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While the two might seem to have some common ground—both are Jewish civil libertarians who consider themselves member of the left—they diverge sharply when it comes to Israel. Chomsky, a cognitive linguistic, is noted for his heated criticisms of both the Jewish state and American foreign policy, while Dershowitz has emerged as one of Israel's most prominent ideological supporters in the United States...
Although she is probably one of the most well-versed scholars of film studies at Harvard, Rachel E. Whitaker ’08 started off her college career on the crew team. This fact might seem odd for a woman of considerable power within the arts scene at Harvard. As president of the Cinematic, Whitaker helped Harvard’s only film-centric publication grow into a thriving organization. As president of the Signet, an exclusive arts and letters society and 138-year-old Harvard institution, Whitaker helped shape the tone of Harvard’s artistic community...
...office hits such as “Superbad” would concede that perhaps the most shocking things about these films is their length, with many of them clocking in either at or around a convention-busting two-hour running time. But people still don’t seem to be complaining. That’s because the Apatow humor aesthetic is founded upon the riff. Riffs are all about timing and sequence, and to get people into stitches you need to keep ’em coming. The writers of these films seem to be hyper-conscious of this...
...event yesterday, Wood had little but kindness for his longtime target. “A lot of us will remember the moment of its publication because it was 2001 just around the time of 9/11,” Wood said. “It didn’t seem as if any novel could really survive that rivalry, something so massive. But of course, this novel not only survived, but enormously prospered.” Franzen said only that he was “disappointed” with Wood’s review of “The Corrections...
...combative to get in response has been a dilemma for Obama, who has built his entire candidacy on the idea that he represents a new, less corrosive brand of politics. Nor does the roughness of ordinary politics seem to fit Obama's personal style. But increasingly, Democrats have been worried about how well that style will wear if Obama gets the nomination and has to face even tougher attacks at the hands of Republicans. "Sometimes, he sounds like he is writing a Ph.D.," said one adviser. "He has to show some passion...