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...judgment is that the two-part Che is a halfway movie: too expensive (reportedly $61 million) to be relegated to art houses, too stiff and forbidding to appeal to any part of a mass audience...
...deans have also mentioned plans to create new teaching positions akin to teaching post-docs. This signifies the positive development of an admirable initiative, as these recent Ph.D. recipients face stiff competition in the dwindling job market and are less likely than ever to find employment elsewhere. It is also important that the university continues to prioritize teaching even amid dire economic straits, and access to these new positions early in their careers might encourage post-docs to continue teaching rather than leave academia altogether...
...understanding. For example, Martin L. Weitzman, a professor in the economics department, argues that the impact of Harvard’s endowment on the alternative energy field would be relatively small and limited to its symbolic significance. Instead, Dr. Weitzman favors large, sweeping public policy changes, such as a stiff tax on carbon emissions, in order to check the emission of harmful greenhouse gasses...
...Amazing, isn't it, how many career politicians who run for President seem uncomfortable in their own skin. Thirty years in public life didn't help Bob Dole, Al Gore or John Kerry sell themselves to the American people. They came across as cranky or boring or stiff, and voters chose the man (Bill Clinton, George W. Bush) who could convincingly play the good ol' boy with southern or Southwest charm. John McCain, who'd been so funny and sunny with his press gang on the Straight Talk Express, turned crotchety in the general campaign and lost to another Harvard...
...Leonard Bernstein ’39, and this is how Rich spent her time onstage. Alone, dressed in a Santa suit, scarfing down cokes and cheeseburgers, her charismatic madness caromed all over. She delivered some of the night’s funniest lines, which is saying something. She had stiff competition, especially from the happy idiot and failed Ford assassin Sara Jane Moore, played by Megan L. Amram ’10. But what made Rich’s performance special was the desperation and fear lurking behind every joke. At the end of her final monologue, speaking into...