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...since the nasty 1984 primary race between party-establishment favorite Walter Mondale and the insurgent Gary Hart has the nomination come down to the superdelegates, who also include governors, Senators and party officials. In that race, virtually all the elders got in line behind Mondale, the party's legatee. But Obama has been steadily chipping away at Clinton's once formidable lead among the superdelegates; the assumption, at least for now, is that most of those who remain would move to put Obama over the top if he emerges from the primary season with the most pledged delegates...
...communism, it’s not as a political herald but as a conversation piece for social studies concentrators. Even then, Marx is a little too mainstream; when trying to communicate one’s extraordinary acquaintance with great thinkers, his monosyllabic moniker gets lost amid the sea of Walter Benjamins and Jürgen Habermases (the more strange accents, the more intellectual firepower).Today, striving for revolution seems a bit anachronistic: one student called Marxist ideology ‘retro’ in 1994, likening it to “Easy-Rider biker gear.” Nowadays, it?...
...first scene of “The Visitor,” Walter Vale struggles in his weekly piano lesson to bend his fingers into the correct position. As his teacher departs, she tells the aging economics professor, “Learning an instrument at your age is difficult, especially if you don’t possess a natural gift for it.” In case the viewer hasn’t grasped the depths of Vale’s despondency by the end of these first few shots, they will soon: in the opening scenes, he gazes forlornly...
...particular its discussion of illegal immigration and deportation in post-9/11 America. McCarthy, however, chooses to present these issues through the personal stories of people who would never have met had it not been for unlikely circumstances. “The Visitor” charts the story of Walter Vale, a professor at Connecticut College, who is dissatisfied with his work and his life. One weekend he discovers that his neglected apartment in New York City has been taken over by two illegal immigrants: Tarek, a Syrian musician, and his Senegalese wife Zainab. After an initially awkward meeting, Vale...
...Katzen, the celebrated cookbook writer and advisor to the Harvard University Dining Services. Dr. Kathy McManus, the Director of Nutrition at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was my chauffeur and confidante. The rock star of baked goods, Mark Furstenberg, served as my bagel research paper advisor. Dr. Walter Willet, the most cited nutritionist in the world, and his equally illustrious contemporaries were my dinner companions. I was home yet tongue-tied with awe. After arguing for years with my hopelessly carnivorous friends that eating healthfully doesn’t mean sacrificing taste, I finally found myself...