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...Teen” moves beyond its updated “Breakfast Club” scenario. Burstein manages to escape the limitations that ensnare the social stereotypes she examines, crafting a wholly believable world in which typically overblown high school problems are carefully counterbalanced by issues that are far more serious. Hannah lives with her grandmother because her mother has been diagnosed with severe depression, a sickness that Hannah fears may have been passed on to her after her boyfriend leaves her and she refuses to attend school. When Hannah’s mother tries to dissuade her from moving...
...Bill Buckley's passing, who are the remaining intellectual giants in modern American conservatism? -Orlando Gutierrez, BostonThere are a lot of very, very smart conservative intellectuals like Thomas Sowell, Michael Novak [and] George Weigal. There are a lot of very thoughtful advocates of what I would call a serious conservatism, by which I mean the preservation of the traditions of freedom and the understanding of the realities within which you have to make decisions...
...Onto a less (or more) serious topic. I read that you were a finalist on Teen Jeopardy! back in the day. True...
...skunky beer,” which emits an unusual smell if the hops are exposed to excessive light, to the contents of his refrigerator—only the company’s Samuel Adams Boston lager—the Harvard grad mixed laid-back humor with a serious understanding of the beer-making process to the impressed crowd. “He brought it down to a science,” Aneesh K. Venkat ’08 said. “I knew there was a lot to wine tasting, but I didn’t realize the sort...
...falling apart. There is a drastic need to wean ourselves off fossil fuels for national-security, environmental and basic supply-and-demand reasons. The physical and educational infrastructures of the country are badly outdated. In order to have an election about those big challenges, we need to shove some serious social issues - like gun control and, yes, even abortion - and phony character issues to the periphery. But Obama is going about it the wrong way. "After 14 long months," he said in his concession speech, "it's easy to get caught up in the distractions and the silliness...