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...orphan--his mother was dead, his father gone. But by 22 he was an aide-de-camp to George Washington, and by 34 he was this country's first Secretary of the Treasury and the principal architect of U.S.-style capitalism. For everything in between, pick up Chernow's vast and vastly entertaining biography. --By Lev Grossman
Today, as he faces another public relations crisis, media reports seem to be linking the new Summers to the old one, forging a narrative that deceptively skips over the vast improvements he made to his character at the Treasury. His public image as an insensitive and socially inept bully seems only to have worsened. Over the course of the recent fiasco, he has been described as “sexist,” “abrasive,” and “brutal” on the establishment broadsheets, and the independent blogosphere has been even less forgiving...
DREW: I’m glad you invoked The Graduate’s legacy here. Although I think there is a vast qualitative difference between it and Garden State, they both share a heavy reliance upon pop music that unifies the film’s “sound” with its overall artistic sensibility. Certainly, there are times when pre-released pop music can be used well in an original film, but far too often it’s an easy out for a studio that needs something for their sister record company to sell...
...realize that someone like Tupac gave himself the same type of college education in sociology and philosophy that Harvard students get here, purely of his own volition and interest. People don’t realize that rappers like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Nas all have vast amounts of literature and orature behind them that move into their works. As far as school, I’m resolved to change the way that I view my education, because any knowledge I can integrate into a song or into a creation, and at the same time, I have been trying...
While some relief efforts have focused on repairing the vast physical damage, the team from MGH spent most of their time working with survivors...