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...Grady is a slender, soft-spoken man wandering around Dublin in his windbreaker, the very picture of a retiree living on a modestly fixed income with, perhaps, not quite enough useful activity to occupy an intelligent and still active mind. At first glance he appears to be a pretty standard and uninteresting type; you would pass him in the street without giving him a second thought. If you spoke to him, as documentary director Amy Berg lengthily did, you would find him to be rather bland and affectless, not particularly forthcoming about his long and astonishing career...
...refreshing to see such decisive action emanating from the legal scholars here in Cambridge. We commend HLS Dean Elena Kagan and the HLS faculty for ensuring that our University can act as a harbinger of change for higher education. Over the next three years, HLS plans to condense the standard first-year offerings first put in place by Langdell, Harvard College Class of 1850, and introduce courses in international and comparative law, legislation and regulation, and “problems and theories”; it also will implement a January Term for its first year students (one already exists...
...most complex works, “Sacrifice,” itself consists of 24 different pieces, each a beautiful album leaf covered with a rendering of the Chinese mountainside. To make the leaves, Li Junyi forsook a standard brush for a gridded stamping technique that some have likened to the work of contemporary American artist Chuck Close. Li’s unusually geometric depictions of the landscape present a squarely classical subject through the lens of an entirely new technique. An accompanying label notes that Li created “Sacrifice” to commemorate students who died...
...unclear who was actually flying the airplane, and who was monitoring air traffic control, though the NTSB's Hersman said Lidle had gotten his license on Feb. 9, 2006. It is standard practice in an airplane emergency for one pilot to focus on keeping the plane stable and aloft while the other pilot handles the radio and troubleshoots the emergency...
When describing even the admittedly racist South, Schama uses phrases like “theirs was a revolution, first and foremost, mobilized to protect slavery,” taking revisionism beyond corrective steering, into an opposite view of the standard heroic American myth. Of course the reality is more complex—a fact that Schama fairly acknowledges throughout the book—but several of his contentions aim for catchphrase status at the expense of historical fairness...