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...without sacrificing their charms.In the modern setting, the absurdity of modern academia produces plenty of comedic material, pitting Carothers’ self-serving histrionics against Benowitz’s scholarly disdain to great effect. The academic battle—between Nightingale’s reckless desire to publish his somewhat baseless conjectures about Byron and Jarvis’ pointed objections—never forsakes the intellectual high ground, but a mastery of the material allows the performance to continue on without ever seeming forced. In Carothers’ hands, Nightingale’s recitation of his prospective lecture concerning...
...That may be overstating it, somewhat: It's unlikely that most Mexicans really feel that mid-19th century life was exactly "ideal." But the heat generated online by the ad does reveal that the war and resultant redrawing of the map 160 years ago can still spark a furor on both sides of the border. Thousands of critics accused the ad of being anti-American and took pains to defend the inclusion of the southwestern states into the union. "It is absurd to believe that the U.S. stole Texas and California since most inhabitants of the Southwest considered the 19th...
...issue still unsettled is whether the Faculty meeting scheduled for next Tuesday is in danger of being cancelled, as the January and March meetings were. James H. Stock, the chairman of the economics department, admitted that the question of whether the vote on quorum would achieve a quorum was somewhat worrisome. “Yes, there will be self-evident irony (and perhaps some red faces) if we have a meeting to discuss changing the quorum and fail to get a quorum,” he said in an e-mail last month. “But that would simply...
Wallach laughs at my reaction when I tell him the pictures are somewhat tragically...
...immigration violations. As the numbers show, behavior detection remains an art, not a science. "I can see them pulling Woody Allen out of a line in an airport if he looked really distressed and they didn't know who he is," Sullivan said. "Everyone's going to look somewhat distressed in an airport so you're going to get some false positives...