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...Crimson led by just eight at halftime and couldn’t shake free over the first four minutes of the second half, as Krasna nailed a jumper to bring the Big Red back within single digits, 39-31, with 16:20 left...
...tell you that art 'must tend toward the pursuit of silence' ... Yet for all her limitations, Susan Sontag has undeniable impact. She is one of those critics who must be judged by their presence as well as their performance. However badly she writes, she will probably continue to shake up academic complacencies ... Her serious posture, too, will go on being a rebuke to slovenly new pop critics, who are often condescending to their material...
...tomboyish aspiring writer, Sutton Foster is a total delight, with gangly limbs always on the move, the comic timing of a vaudeville vet and a voice that can shake the balcony. She burst onto Broadway two seasons ago as the star of Thoroughly Modern Millie; she's even better here, a great singing comedian in the Carol Burnett mold. Maureen McGovern is a little stodgy as the mother, but the whole ensemble--including the men--meshes perfectly. If only the score by Jason Howland had a few decent tunes, Little Women might have been a real banquet. --By Richard Zoglin
...simply too slow. And localized catastrophes, such as the mudslides and floods in the U.S. last week or even the Iranian earthquake of 2003, are usually too parochial in their victimization to catch the attention of all humanity. It takes a multicontinental cataclysm--instantaneous, catastrophic, widely spread--to shake the world from its self-absorption. The tsunami that destroyed thousands of lives from Sumatra to Somalia engendered an instant, near-universal outpouring of concern, shared grief and charitable giving. Ronald Reagan once startled the U.N. by suggesting in a speech that humanity would unite and forget its petty divisions...
Pharr expressed support for a set of FAS-wide policies to assure that top female scholars “get a fair shake in hiring and promotion in every possible...