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...colleague for eight years and friend for longer, I can say that Tom Jehn is the perfect choice to lead Expos. As the article’s other quotations suggest, he has spent two intense years rebuilding a program with transparency, decency, and new ideas. A superb teacher himself—perhaps the article could have given his average Q rating over the last 10 years? —he has proven himself an effective and trusted administrator. He’s also pretty bright: an intellectual force I would say, if the term wasn’t already debased...
...Foreign-language films. A late Sunday-night slot, right after the silent movie, goes to non-English-language films: official classics, often from the superb Criterion and Kino collections, but also outre items like Munchhausen, a lavish Germany fantasy made in the last years of the Third Reich. A rich month was devoted to Mexico, the second largest film industry in the Americas; another to Italian neo-realism, curated and introduced by Martin Scorsese. (One disappointment: in the recent month dedicated by Sophia Loren, only five of the 23 films were Italian.) A season on Asian faces in Hollywood movies...
...unit, we didn’t pass particularly well, so that definitely was a contributing factor.”While struggles to pass and establish an offensive presence would prove to be the Achilles’ heel for Harvard throughout the game, it was the superb serving from Rutgers-Newark that would be the story of the day. In just three sets, the Pioneers racked up ten service aces, and the Crimson simply had no answer for its opponent.“Anytime a team serves you ten services aces, that’s eight points they have...
...Michael Kalfayan, restored to the starting line-up, clinched the match in dramatic fashion—winning at No. 6 in a third set tiebreaker, fighting back from a set down for the win (4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5)).“[Kalfayan] has been playing superb tennis in practice,” Fish said. “It was finally time for him to get a chance.”PRINCETON 4, HARVARD 3In a difficult matchup, the Crimson took to the Jadwin Gym courts in New Jersey on Friday, needing a win to boost...
...meaning “little dyer” after his father’s profession—was the eldest of 22 children (his father must have been busy with more than staining wool) and is one of three Olympian daubers of color on canvas whose works fill the superb exhibit of 16th century Venetian painting at the Museum of Fine Arts. This show, “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice,” on view through August 16, brings together with rare serendipity an embarrassment of stunning paintings on loan from museums around the world. This...