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...When [students in Cambridge] see smokestacks or manufacturing facilities, and they wonder what’s in that smoke??and even what industry those factories are associated with and how hazardous the emissions are—they can use the Web site for that,” said Michael W. Toffel, the Business School professor who played a major role in the creation of the site...
...unapologetically lyrical and unabashedly grand, with a pronounced biblical undercurrent that promises depth, the work lacks substance, lacks true cohesion—lacks whatever it is that makes a work captivating, wonderful, or enjoyable.Despite its promise and its moments of greatness and beauty, “Tree of Smoke?? ultimately proves enigmatic, inaccessible, and disappointing. In the novel, which is mostly set in Vietnam from 1963 to 1970, “Tree of Smoke?? is the name of a covert operation, the brainchild of a powerful, charismatic CIA operative known simply as the Colonel...
...nicotine-fueled repartee by Europe’s great literary and artistic geniuses—are or will soon be smoke-free. Soon, one suspects, the intellectual fervor and the romantic intrigue of these places will be stamped out along with the social ritual of smoking. People will still smoke??but despondently, at home. One small valuable part of human experience will have been abolished...
...guys are well-behaved,” he remarked at one point to a crowd mesmerized by Beam’s voice—warm and breathy, yet also strong and present—through slow, melancholy melodies like “Cinder and Smoke??Beam, who along with artists like Sufjan Stevens and Devendra Banhart is bringing the folk aesthetic to a modern, independent audience, gained widespread attention after his cover of the Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights” appeared on the “Garden State” soundtrack...
...weird mix between a young-adult daycare and an Old Boy’s Club when we graduate. I sometimes get the urge to pull out a pipe and sit in a red leather chair discussing Kant with my cronies. (And I don’t even smoke??or know what cronies really are.) I recognize, however, the need to appreciate Harvard for all that it is—an institution overflowing with history and traditions that I believe one day will make even the most cynical of us nostalgic...