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When Helen encourages Jenny to update her wardrobe, pointing out that David would gladly buy her anything she wanted, Jenny is confused: “Why would David want to take me shopping?” This kind of natural, charming innocence keeps the audience sympathetic toward Jenny despite her vain, often painful attempts to seem old and sophisticated, the most embarrassing of which are her frequent, unprovoked outbursts of French...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'An Education' | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...consists of nine scenes describing the seven deadly sins as manifested in various works of William Shakespeare. Its characters range from tortured to downright oblivious, and all of them find themselves victims of a particular fatal flaw. One can laugh and even sympathize with them, but would certainly never want to become them, though it is always clear how easily one could...

Author: By Athena L. Katsanpes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hyperion’s ‘Sins’ Dead On in Entertainment Value | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...says that if you can measure X to within a degree of certitude, then the maximum certitude you can get for Y is a function of the certitude for X. As a consequence of wave-particle duality, you can’t measure both quantities as accurately as you want to. What this means epistemologically and metaphysically is perpetually up for debate...

Author: By Adam L. Palay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Keats & Quanta: The Cat Is Dead | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...recalled in March," Gary Sklaver added. "And he didn't want to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Death in Afghanistan: Ben Sklaver's Story | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...searching for answers about the current state of their country and what lies ahead for it. "I have scrapped the lecture I was going to give tomorrow," says Hashmi. "Instead, I am going to just present images to my students. One set will show the Pakistan that these terrorists want. The other will show the type of Pakistan that has been. I'll ask: 'What was Pakistan?' and 'What is Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coordinated Attacks Unleashed on Lahore | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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