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Books don't have to be serious to be adapted, as the many movie versions of Elmore Leonard novels attest. But since they're often how people experience a story first, debates will always rage over the merits of each version. We're here to add kindling to that fire. Six books, six movies, 12 constituencies. Which ones win? We'll say, but you'll decide...
...serious is the troop-reduction plan...
...between mothers and daughters, the latter often Chinese-American like Tan. Uncharacteristically, Saving Fish is mostly about politics, and it's set mostly in Burma, not China or Tan's native northern California. It's also unsettling, provocative and, at the same time, both her funniest and her most serious book. Tan did go to Burma. And Saving Fish is about a group of American tourists who venture to the country, renamed Myanmar by the junta in 1989. While on a day trip into the jungle from their ritzy resort, the Americans are kidnapped by Karen tribesmen who believe that...
...left on the doorsteps of an affluent family and is told from the perspective of the family’s spoiled Labrador. The jealous dog takes on unfamiliar work, including washing the windows and sweeping the floor, eventually winning the couple over and causing them to reject the baby. Serious topics dressed in humorous garb defined much of Lamb’s work. Gardner points to the 1978 animated short “Why Me?” as a prime example of Lamb’s talent. “Why Me?” begins with a man?...
...current Core.Other professors, including Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann and History Department Chair Andrew Gordon, also said that the three areas would allow students to graduate without taking courses in certain important disciplines like moral reasoning, history, and foreign cultures.“I think it is a serious mistake in the blanket condemnations of the Core to not provide a shelter for those types of courses,” Hoffmann said.Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60, a member of the General Education committee, dismissed concerns that the proposed curriculum gives students too much freedom...