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...intention to step-down as Dean of Harvard College, effective August 31, 2007. Dick has served energetically as the College's dean for the past four years, and before that as Dean of Undergraduate Education for one year. In that time, Dick has done a great deal to shepherd the review of the undergraduate curriculum and to enhance many aspects of undergraduate life on campus. A summary of his achievements is contained in the attached press release...
...cooler commercials), and I countered with a question about a YouTube video of him looking a little plowed at a recent Nets playoff game, he smiled. He paused. And then he said, "Jet-lagged." Yes, I thought, dude was jet-lagged. I've been jet-lagged and mocked Cybill Shepherd and cursed on national TV. Almost...
...breathy, muffled screams. Brilliant sunshine bathes the family's kitchen as they take morning prayer in a silence broken only by the loud ticking of the clock. Esther raises her eyes, Johan says, "Amen," and the children dive wordlessly into their cereal. After the meal, Esther leaves to shepherd the kids on errands, returning briefly to tell Johan to take some time for himself this morning. Alone, he weeps uncontrollably...
...Screw and other literary and cinematic works (including The Others, also by a Spanish director) that investigate the power the dead have over the living, especially over children in the most imaginative and vulnerable stages. It concerns Laura (Belen Rueda), who as a child spent time in the Good Shepherd Orphanage before being adopted. For her the orphanage was not a horror house but the dearest refuge, where she had a half-dozen close friends her age, and which she recalls so fondly that after her marriage to a nice doctor, Carlos (Fernando Cayo), she persuades him that they should...
...sense, the theme of director Curtis Hanson's movie, which he co-wrote with Eric Roth (Munich, The Good Shepherd) - a writer with a gift for patient, novelistic complexity - is the education of Huck Cheever. Even though that process proceeds via a certain amount of boy-girl, father-son clichés, the movie does not have a tired feeling about it. In part that's because Huck, who needs to get together enough money to pay his entrance fee for the World Championship of Poker and can only do so by "playing with the guppies" in small stakes games...