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...things that shape who we are, few seem more arbitrary than the sequence in which we and our siblings pop out of the womb. Maybe it's your genes that make you a gifted athlete, your training that makes you an accomplished actress, an accident of brain chemistry that makes you a drunk instead of a President. But in family after family, case study after case study, the simple roll of the birth-date dice has an odd and arbitrary power...
...error. But families are a good deal sloppier than that, a mishmash of competing needs and moods and clashing emotions, better understood by the people in the thick of them than by anyone standing outside. Yet millenniums of families would swear by the power of birth order to shape the adults we eventually become. Science may yet overturn the whole theory, but for now, the smart money says otherwise...
...present,” Faust said. “A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia, learning that shapes the future.”As expected, Faust explicitly avoided sketching a specific road map for her tenure in her 30-minute speech, calling inaugural addresses “by definition pronouncements by individuals who don’t yet know what they are talking about...
...This is a moment that is meant to encompass a whole presidency, a decade say, of what I think is important and the values that are going to motivate me and shape every single thing I do," Faust told The Crimson in an interview Thursday...
...connections to move their cocaine into the city and cripple the police leadership at the same time, the family’s dirty laundry airs, and things get messy. Unfortunately, Gray’s writing is just as messy. Nonetheless, though the man may not understand how to shape a dramatic scene, he aces his action sequences. The undercover infiltration of a drug warehouse is tense and stifling, with each corridor distending into murky darkness, shot with just enough slow-motion to give the whole scene the feeling of a nauseous, hallucinated pipe dream. A car chase filmed mostly from...