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...undercover cop worms his way into the trust of a powerful mobster. The mobster's young protege joins the police force and rises quickly through the ranks. Each man knows there's an infiltrator in the other group, but neither knows who the mole is. The two double agents, good and bad, have to find out and, finally, they have to face off. Donnie Brasco, meet Kim Philby...
...rescue. Instead of unwinding, as Scorsese's movies tend to, this one keeps coiling, a python of a plot that puts the what-happens-next? element of standard, superior storytelling at the forefront of the audience's mind. Viewers are alerted to trust no one; immediately or ultimately, five of the characters will reveal that they are not what they seem. The anticipation of trickery keeps a movie crowd on its toes. And because the story is so strong, Scorsese can elaborate on it without looking self-indulgent. One visual strategy: he plants X's everywhere, on the walls...
...insurer there, Lloyd's, since 1771. And because it's an outfit that historically insured ships, weather is never too far from its mind. Last year Hurricane Katrina turned heads at Lloyd's. The storm didn't just flood New Orleans; it also swept away the insurance industry's trust in its catastrophe modeling, the tool it depends on to evaluate bad-weather risk. The model assumed that a hurricane like Katrina couldn't happen in the same year as two other superstorms. Nor did it envision the off-the-scale damage caused by Katrina--275,000 houses destroyed...
...women’s center, women and men both, have asked for the same tools in order to battle what they call female “marginalization” at Harvard. The newly opened Harvard College Women’s Center, and the connected offices of the Ann Radcliffe Trust, are the long-awaited products of those calls for support. Located in the refurbished Canaday B basement, the Women’s Center is designed to serve as an umbrella organization that will “serve the needs of student organizations on campus, particularly but not exclusively the groups...
...lucky. I found my call to public service and public interest law after I went to Washington for a one-year job in 1963, and stayed. Today’s students do not have to trust their luck. The foundation for their call to public service is right here, in a smorgasbord of activities as accessible as the frozen yogurt in the omnipresent self-serve machine—another Harvard amenity not present a half-century ago. So I say to them: Eat! Enjoy! Learn! Commit! Graduate! Serve...