Word: tobin
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After walking Tobin, Mankiw rouses his 14-year old daughter so that she can catch the 7:00 a.m. bus. He says his daughter enjoys math and history. “I always took that as a sign that she may be a future economist,” Mankiw says...
...professor typically wakes up in his 1930s brick colonial in Wellesley between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m. to take his border terrier Tobin for a walk. Tobin, who is named after Nobel Prize-winning economist James Tobin, is the brown-furred successor to Keynes, Mankiw’s last dog. The real-life Tobin was a follower of economist John Maynard Keynes, as well...
...ever met in my life,” said Bruster, who as a graduate student at Harvard helped Evans prepare his edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Evans was also generous in sharing his office space with former students and younger scholars, said Professor of English John Tobin of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Tobin, who worked with Evans on the second edition of The Riverside Shakespeare, said he has fond memories of mornings spent with Evans in his Widener office. “He was extremely generous with his advice and his support,” Tobin said...
...horror movie sequel. This is another round of disturbingly gruesome imagery surpassed in horror only by the cast’s absurdly bad acting. In the movie that left adults cringing and young males drooling, “Saw” introduced the world to the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell), a terminal cancer patient who places his morally aberrant victims in shocking, deadly situations for which extreme measures are needed to survive. Jigsaw intends to make society value the sanctity of life, believing those who live will have a greater appreciation for what they were wasting away. Amanda (Shawnee Smith...
Particularly disappointing is the intimate look at the inner workings of Jigsaw. Although Tobin Bell’s performance is the closest to respectable in the film, he ultimately fails to portray one of those “cool” villains (Hannibal Lecter, for instance) that are inherently bad, yet charismatic. Jigsaw’s explanation of his crimes fails to convince that the character’s intent—to prove the value of life by forcing people to make extremely painful sacrifices to avoid death—is noble...