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...activist, despite an outcry from scientists that her famous lawsuits were not backed by sound research. In acknowledging the controversy surrounding her receipt, SPH Dean Barry R. Bloom basically dismissed the “casual uncertainty” issues and focused on Brockovich’s supposedly moral aims, which??although he didn’t mention it—incidentally made her tons of money through dubious litigation. What a great message for public health: science doesn’t matter, just good intentions.5. BoLoCo’s nauseating name change. This may seem trivial...
...remove. Trade groups reacted angrily to this proposal, saying that it was Google’s duty to secure permission for copyrighted works, not the publishers’ responsibility to opt out of the project. Google said that the print initiative is a logical extension of its mission, which??according to the search engine’s website—is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” “Any researcher or student, whether they’re in New York...
...fictionalized passage into his narrative, he had to judge whether he was “corrupting” the material. Of course, historians and journalists necessarily filter the facts through the sieve of their own judgment. But Wright’s fictionalizations add an added layer of subjectivity which??considering the strength of Wright’s underlying research—proves to be entirely superfluous.Unavoidably, these minor transgressions will force readers to approach “Harvard’s Secret Court” with skepticism—to question which details are fact and which...
...doubt about the vitality of the novel lingers in your mind, such skepticism will be washed away next Friday, Oct. 28, when Hollinghurst reads from “The Line” at the Brattle Theatre at 6 p.m. The novel carries readers through 1980s London, a period which??for narrator-hero Nick Guest—is cataclysmic on two fronts: first, as a young and privileged Englishman in the dizzying boom-and bust-climate of Thatcherism; second, as a gay man at the dawn of the AIDS crisis. Such high-stakes political, moral, and social issues could...
...return to more familiar territory for Crowe, whose last film, the 2001 science-fiction adaptation “Vanilla Sky,” was a dramatic departure in material and style: Crowe is an autonomous craftsman who has both written and directed most of his oeuvre, all of which??besides “Sky”—can be classified as romance comedies. For Crowe, tackling “Vanilla Sky” was about trying something radically different, as he says like the way “some people talk about making a punk rock...