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...colleagues cite Knowles’ outward charm—“extremely smooth and very much the Oxford don,” in the words of Professor of Chemistry and Physics Eric J. Heller—as a crucial catalyst for advancing his agenda, which ranged from the thankless task of cutting the Faculty’s budget deficit in the early 1990’s to luring prominent scholars to Harvard in his more recent efforts to increase the size of the Faculty...
...They have agreeable best pals (Jeremy Piven and Molly Shannon). Eugene Levy does a nice turn as a fussy store clerk, and one doesn't feel particularly sorry for the drippy fiances (Bridget Moynahan and John Corbett), who exist mainly to be dumped and whose roles define the word thankless. Peter Chelsom's direction is conventionally pretty--and an improvement on his grim Town & Country...
...Welcome Tom, and good luck - it's a thankless job, almost as bad as Drug Czar, which is a sure sign that it's important...
...Thankless Task?...
...It’s a thankless task,” says Mason Professor of Music Christoph J. Wolff...