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...begged me to consider this a masterpiece of Southern literature. I think I fell asleep that day in Expos. The trajectory of the novel is simple: Jack Burden—a jaded newspaperman with a complex personal background—recounts the rise of rural populist Louisiana Governor Willie Stark and his decline into corruption. Ambitious Government concentrators and wannabe Faulkners melt for this stuff. Steven Zaillian’s new film adaptation of “All the King’s Men” must meet the expectations of devotees of the classic novel, the acclaim...
...don’t vote, you don’t matter,” proclaims Willie Stark (Sean Penn) as he campaigns for Louisiana governor in “All the King’s Men.” How fitting a subject for the Institute of Politics’ (IOP) first advance movie screening, held Tuesday, Sept. 12, at the AMC Loews Theater in Harvard Square. Following the film, David T. Ellwood ’75, Dean of the Kennedy School of Government and Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy, hosted a question and answer forum with several...
...hats and tool belts, and building wooden wall frames for some of the 26 houses Habitat is constructing in Cluj. One will go to the Parauan family: five people who now live in one tiny room of a dank, Ceausescu-era tower block, which the executives visit for a stark reality check. Whoops of delight rise up when the first frames are hauled into place and a house starts to take shape. "Sometimes I feel like I've sold my soul, working for a multinational," says Katerina Pette, 30, who moved from Greece to manage the Ikea inventory for Whirlpool...
...Ward of New Orleans or Iraq under Saddam Hussein. William West Fairborn, Ohio, U.S. Of all the accounts coming out of Iraq, this article has best captured the des- pair and fear gripping the citizens of a country that is no longer a country. It's unfortunate that this stark reality of life in Baghdad, and by extension the rest of Iraq, does not register with the Bush Administration. The laws of a democracy, or even a dictatorship, simply do not exist. The watercolors used by the Bush Administration to paint an encouraging picture of Iraq are being washed away...
...often last as long as half of the class time and Laibson does an impressive job of intelligently and intuitively answering every question while maintaining the attention of students. Laibson is surprisingly accessible to students and is not afraid to crack a joke or two in class. Shleifer, in stark contrast, comes off as much more dry and less approachable. This distinction comes from his frank and unaffected demeanor in lecture and the boring course material doesn’t help. Unfortunately, the TFs for this class vary in quality as widely as Michael Jackson does in appearance. Most recently...