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...Today, these matters and manners may strike you as so very once-upon-a-time. Nobody "behaves" any more. In the post-Audrey age, when stars are in rehab before they're out of their teens, when British royals rut as strenuously as rock stars and a President gets impeached for accepting fellatio from an intern, deportment is a Victorian concept. Even in the 50s, a decade of such screen seraphs as Vivien Leigh, Claire Bloom, Grace Kelly and Jean Simmons (William Wyler's first choice for the role of Princess Ann), Hepburn was a glorious anachronism. She represented...
...coalition, which includes Harvard scientists and evangelical leaders, held a press conference in Washington D.C. this week. The unlikely pairing came about after a meeting of the two groups in November. “People came to this meeting not knowing how easy it was to strike common ground,” said James J. McCarthy, a member of the coalition who is the Agassiz professor of biological oceanography and Pforzheimer House master. “We have a serious commitment in both communities to advance this agenda.” Eric Chivian, director of Harvard’s Center...
...down on costs, and so money remains cheap while (core) inflation is safely confined. If U.S. growth has slowed a bit, Japan and Euroland are no longer a drag on the global economy. More significant is the uptick in confidence. Last year, those morose Europeans called off their consumption strike, and so consumer spending is up by around 2%. That may not be very impressive by Chinese standards, but it's downright profligate when compared to the tightfistedness of past years...
...obvious candidate for recoupling - for something that reduces the world's economy to the miserable level of its politics - is a preventive strike against Iranian nuclear installations, with all the global repercussions that would imply. Israel might like to launch one, but cannot; the U.S. could do so, but will not, given the debilitating unfinished business in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet even if a catastrophic war is unlikely, the world remains a dangerous place - made more dangerous by the condition of its prime power. The U.S. is today what Britain was during the first globalization: the anchor of the liberal...
...point, down to Katie Johnston in the slot, quick shot and in. Wait, Katie Johnston? Johnston is a senior forward, with a previous career high of 10 goals and 21 points. She’s on pace to shatter those bests this season—that crucial game-tying strike bumped her totals to eight goals and 15 points. Those who showed up at Bright on Friday night to witness the dazzling skills of the Olympians were surely not disappointed. They saw Vaillancourt leaping over obstacles in a rush on net, Apps uncorking a laser-beam slapshot, Parsons juking...