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...Axing transfer admissions has created a surfeit of sob stories, most of which ought to be neither trivialized nor ignored. But at the end of the day, the outrage from current Harvard students has been somewhat surprising. After all, it was out of attentiveness to undergraduates’ direct personal interests that the administration made the decision to banish transfers. Just three days prior to the move, rising seniors in Winthrop House had been casually informed that, thanks to a looming Malthusian crisis, the cushy senior suites they’d be expecting would be replaced by bunk beds...
...never been difficult to reconcile my love for hip-hop with my eternal devotion to Gordon Sumner. Like the best rap music, the Police always had funky basslines, rhythm-driven songs, and an oft-maligned intellectual underside. But after the Puffy sob-fest “I’ll Be Missing You,” I figured the party was over. 11 years later, imagine my surprise when a respected Atlanta rap stalwart releases not one, but two tracks prominently featuring samples from the Police on an otherwise “back-to-basics” album. In addition...
Perhaps worst of all, we let international students use their funny accents and sob stories about not being able to go home for Thanksgiving as leverage, stealing the finance jobs that ought to go to good, wholesome Americans. While uppity Argentines grow the United States’ economy from behind their desks at Goldman Sachs, the native sons whose jobs they’ve stolen are forced into dependence on their trust funds years before their time. All the while, the foreign pretenders talk to each other in languages other than English, knowing full well that no self-respecting American...
...doesn't try to be ruder or kinkier, just bigger and better. It follows a rule Brooks laid down at the beginning of the series: Don't be afraid to show emotion. Audience, that goes for you too when you watch Homer and Marge's worst ever marital crisis. Sob away unabashedly...
...These reflections are occasioned by the arrival from France of La Vie En Rose, a biopic about the gifted, fragile and intermittently insane chanteuse Edith Piaf. Writer-director Olivier Dahan, has given her story a sumptuous production - with the look of an old-fashioned Hollywood musical sob story - as well as a maddeningly fragmented structure. For reasons best known to Dahan, he is always cutting from Piaf (played by Marion Cotillard) at the height of her relatively brief life (she was discovered in 1935 and died, at age 47, in 1963) to this or that aspect of her dismal past...