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...from a Pope. In a passage on sin, he wrote of the temptation to "think that bargaining a little with evil, reserving some freedom against God, is good, perhaps even necessary. But if we look at the world, it is not so. Evil always poisons." His predecessor's poetic touch made the world take notice. Benedict will connect by the power of his prose. But for all his learning and his sense of mission, the great surprise of Benedict's papacy so far - at least to those who didn't personally know him - has been a quiet humanity...
...improbably melodramatic premise-Golden Boy reset in Paris-and also a remake of the American film Fingers. But that reckons without the canny direction of Jacques Audiard and the appealing work of Romain Duris as the muscle man-musician. His efforts to reclaim himself are told with irony, a touch of almost unspoken romance and surprising, but plausible, results as the movie moves from noirish darkness to the more sunlit realms of artistic aspiration...
...divorce and TV shows. But they're haunted by dark spirits, and dark emotions, loss and anger and despair. They play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro and J.K. Rowling, and Link finds truths there that most authors wouldn't dare touch...
Rather than pose hopelessly vague questions to students who have skimmed sections of a 500-page assignment, the TF should have a concrete plan for what to discuss, and stay in touch with the students throughout the week...
...People are actually learning a lot.” Another senior, Beatriz M. Mac Donald ’06 said she agreed. “This is a perfect setting at Harvard for food and information; a lot of people definitely came, and the music was a nice touch,” she said. Many said the relaxed setting helped stimulate conversation without turning away people of different views. “I think this is a really nice mix of a relaxed atmosphere that clearly is not an academic setting with information still available,” said Kate...