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...prefer “malleable” women: “If there’s one thing men fear, it’s a woman who uses her critical faculties.” (On the contrary, Summers–as his recent marriage engagement demonstrated–likes smart women, but fears critical Faculties.) Men prefer women who make less money than they do. Men feel threatened when women pay, while women are offended when they are expected to go dutch. Men will flee at the sight of a large paycheck, or a large brain...
During Lowell’s tenure, Harvard was struggling with the problem of reducing its number of Jewish students, which had climbed to 27 percent of the student body by the mid-1920s. In order to quell this influx of smart, seemingly-qualified students, the admissions office instituted a new framework with which to admit applicants; instead of just academic accomplishments and IQ tests, the admissions department would take into account human attributes like “moral character” and “manly vigor.” In following that philosophy, Wilbur J. Bender...
...bust-climate of Thatcherism; second, as a gay man at the dawn of the AIDS crisis. Such high-stakes political, moral, and social issues could easily overpower a less skillful writer, turning the novel into mere sermon or satire. But Hollinghurst and his fictitious alter-ego are far too smart for that.Instead, we meet a brilliant, insecure Oxford grad with an exacting, reverential, and eventually obsessive eye for beauty, whether found in the heights of a Gothic cathedral, the curves of his first lover, Leo, or the electric rush of cocaine. He finds it quite often in the work...
...proud of and comfortable with," says Berry. "Like most children, there's enough about me as an individual to distinguish myself from my parents. And so far, that seems to be working as far as acting goes." Balasko built her formidable career on brassy comic roles portraying salty, street-smart women. Aware - and somewhat chagrined - that they'll never be the shapeliest beauties in the room, classic Balasko characters waste no time trying to seduce with verbal niceties or polite formalities. Adapting that approach to a more wounded and vulnerable persona, Berry first created a stir as the plain, plump...
Bashar Assadlikes to be seen. In Damascus, the Syrian President is often spotted dining at a smart restaurant with his wife Asma or driving his family to their weekend retreat in the mountains. Since succeeding his father Hafez as President in 2000, Assad has left the dirty work of running Syria's ruthless intelligence and security organs to two members of his clan--his brother Maher, 37, commander of the Presidential Guard, and his brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, 55, chief of Syrian military intelligence. They haven't always got along. About five years ago, Maher shot Shawkat...