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Harvard's slight of the Foundation appears to be the latest salvo in a two-year-old cold war between top University administrators and Foundation Director S. Allen Counter. Two falls ago, in a clear blow to Counter's authority, the University appointed Epps as its "race czar." What followed was a series of behind the scenes slaps, the most notable being Counter's assistance to leaders of the Asian American Association in drafting a letter to the editors of The Crimson that attacked Epps's handling of campus race issues...
...production of The Mother, originally seen on the Philco Television Playhouse in 1954, is something of a revelation. By today's lights, it seems rather dated, obvious and slight. The plot is minimal: despite her children's pleas, a 66-year-old widow insists on looking for work. She manages to get a job as a seamstress but is fired after one day. Depressed and lonely, she spends a night with her daughter and son-in-law. Then she decides to try again. Fade...
That aside, polls put the race at a virtual dead heat, with some giving Romney a slight edge if the general election were today...
...Phair isn't a great singer (her intonation is sometimes uncertain), her songs too often sound alike (a slight melody with a plucky bass), and she is no longer an independent-label secret (she just appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone). Yet there is something so vital and appealing about this Chicago rocker that it's hard not to admire her. Not many singer-songwriters manage to be so honest and so much fun at the same time...
...title of his brief new work, Field Notes (Knopf; 159 pages; $20), evokes science, but what Lopez offers instead are a dozen fictional sketches from his staked-out territory at the edge of the natural world. The stories are slight, and the term note suggests sketchbook impressions, perhaps, for canvases that might someday be painted. Thus slyly discounted by their author, these spare narrations carry surprising weight. One story, Teal Creek, is nothing more than a teenager's recollection of coming instinctively to respect a rural hermit's solitude. Although Lopez is known for wavering dangerously close to poetic prose...