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...with its promise of ever closer union between nations that had recently been at war, was a glorious cause. But for those under 35, the E.U. is not an earthly paradise in the making, but an unremarkable fact of life. Give it a constitution, with all the usual high-tone preambles? Like, why bother? A certain ennui with the great causes of the past, of course, does not translate into the sort of big C, red-in-tooth-and-claw conservatism familiar in the U.S. Labor market reform may be the watchword of European governments from Greece to Scandinavia...
Department chairs said they submitted proposals for new faculty searches to University Hall in the spring, expecting answers by July in order to advertise for open positions on academia’s usual timetable...
...would ask my dad what he was listening to, and he would always reply, “jazz.” Simple, straightforward, I understood it, and I knew what jazz sounded like. Then one day I heard some music coming from his room and asked him, as usual, and he said, “Monk...
...usual, Monk’s signature dissonant chords, rapid-fire runs down the piano and flat-hand technique are all there. But this time around, he is not simply going through the motions. Every note is important, and he forces the audience to listen to every move he makes. The notes themselves are often secondary to the silences, the stutters, the phrases, and everything else that connects one pitch to another...
...year-old bridesmaid next summer. Twice. And not for an older sister, thrice divorced aunt, or former babysitter (the usual suspects), but instead, for two fellow Harvard gal pals. One graduated with the class of 2005, the other plans to walk with me in ’07. Your initial reaction, of course, is disbelief and despair: if the national divorce rate is pushing 50 percent, what are the chances a young couple could actually make marriage last in a society that entertains itself by watching “Desperate Housewives” and the Home Shopping Network. Don?...