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...controversy has exposed a sharp split inside the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. While some professors outside the economics department have lambasted the University for not taking any action against Shleifer, many economists here have publicly defended their John Bates Medal-winning colleague as a vital intellectual asset...
...Southern California orthopedic surgeon, skidded instantly from doctor to patient one day as he walked toward the operating room, scrubbed hands raised, and slipped on a freshly mopped floor. He broke the scaphoid bone in his right wrist, a bone that anchors all the bones in the hand, especially vital for the physically demanding work of an orthopedic surgeon...
...biggest problems, however, is simply that this movie could have been made 10 years ago. The events of the last five years should make this sort of tense terrorist thriller more exciting, more vital, more visceral. This could really happen, a viewer should think. Instead it devolves into an entertaining bastard child of “The Fugitive,” “The Peacemaker,” and “24”—a program that has all the urgency “The Sentinel” lacks...
...England Poetry Club’s (NEPC) annual Golden Rose prize and read his work to a packed Yenching Auditorium audience in an event co-sponsored by the NEPC and Harvard’s Signet Society. NEPC president Diana Der-Hovanessian called Ferlinghetti “a vital voice” and an “American conscience” as she awarded him the Golden Rose. The award has been presented since 1920 to the writer deemed by the NEPC to have had the greatest influence on American poetry in the past year or over a lifetime. Past recipients...
...Orpheus, it is John, his manager, who periodically comes to his apartment bearing news of a world gone mad for lack of his music; for Eurydice, it is Persephone, who extols the virtues of impermanence and forgetfulness. Both characters are played brilliantly by John Kelly, who provides a vital link between the stories in Hades and on Earth. As Persephone, he steals the emotional show from the more demonstrative Orpheus and Eurydice. The form of the play resembles an opera re-imagined by a Beat poet: sung and spoken dialogue alternates, often bleeding into each other and usually backed...