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...have my regular chat on the phone last week with my 19-year-old niece Chloe, a sophomore at Harvard, when I got an e-mail from her asking if we could reschedule. She was so busy with schoolwork, she said in her message, that she couldn't spare any time to talk with her dear aunt for the rest of the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Larry Summers Got Right | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...film is disturbing because it does not spare us the fate that awaits the son—but also does not fully register its significance, does not make clear the connection between the nationalistic rapture of the mother and the explosions that will kill her last family member. In the end, Netaji does not sufficiently explore or evoke the ethical questions and complications that it should—particularly in a time when questions of violence and the deployment of violence in service of nation-statehood are so salient...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Indian Epic Focuses on Gandhi's Rival | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...those around him have difficulty seeing this because his behavior suggests that his brain is not. This description of the title character in Robert Shallcross’ new movie, Uncle Nino, actually captures a lot of what is wrong with this well-intentioned picture: it has heart to spare, but it frustrates because it lacks brains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...film is disturbing because it does not spare us the fate that awaits the son—but also does not fully register its significance, does not make clear the connection between the nationalistic rapture of the mother and the explosions that will kill her last family member. In the end, Netaji does not sufficiently explore or evoke the ethical questions and complications that it should—particularly in a time when questions of violence and the deployment of violence in service of nation-statehood are so salient...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Indian Epic Focuses on Gandhi's Political Rival | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

Fortunately next Tuesday’s emergency meeting offers the opportunity for faculty members to take the first steps down a new, more respectable path—one worthy of their esteemed positions, and one that can spare the University senseless embarrassment...

Author: By Michael B. Broukhim, Adam M. Guren, and Hannah E. S. wright, S | Title: Staff Dissent: Mobbing Summers | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

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