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...moment when he intones, "It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon" and launches into one of his tallish stories, marked by a looping inventiveness and softly colored by a kind of deadpan compassion. I would not for a moment imply that he achieves in them a tragic sense of life, but they are certainly implicitly sympathetic to people whose reach exceeds their emotional grasp and often enough hypnotic in their telling. I'm not saying that a movie can reasonably be expected to come to a halt while Keillor tells one of his stories. But this weightless film...
...tragic case of miscommunication, sleeping with Lawrence Summers,” MacFarlane quipped. “Although God bless him, the man has the hands of a prison doctor...
...were an inspiration to all who were graced by his presence,” it read. The weekend before he died, Ty completed a paper on the mechanisms of brain cell recovery, according to Teague. HMS also released a statement saying that Ty’s death was especially tragic because his research could have made great contributions to the field. “[Ty]’s life was cut tragically short before he had the chance to deliver on all his promise,” the statement reads. “[He] was destined to have...
...we’re getting the most talented people, that’s the only criteria.”According to Fitzsimmons, the Class of 2010 is currently 52.4 percent female. And Harvard has no plans to institute affirmative action for men.“It really would be tragic to turn down someone more talented because she happened to a be woman,” he says.Fitzsimmons adds that it’s possible for Harvard to see a larger share of women if the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) continues to increase socioeconomic diversity on campus. A great...
...Sciences and subsequent resignation. I fear that some of the most important sides of his multifaceted presidency will be lost in an effort to dramatize an unquestionably tumultuous five years. In particular, the prejudice of history may overlook his tremendous commitment to undergraduates, an aria of Summers’ tragic opera for which I was lucky enough to hold a front-row seat.You see, by some strange alignment of the stars, President Summers was my freshman year academic adviser. I’m not quite sure how or why it happened, although luck and my interest in economics played...