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...girl could even love her genially alcoholic writer dad (Kris Kristofferson). Based on the memoirish novel by James Jones' daughter Kaylie, this beautifully observed film is a domestic epic in miniature: of precocious kids and stern teachers, of maids and their amours, of complex friendships ended by fate's whim. In an exemplary cast the standouts are Luisa Conlon and Leelee Sobieski as the daughter at seven and 14, and Anthony Roth Costanza as her brilliantly effeminate best friend. The Merchant-Ivory attention to period detail often seems like the movie equivalent of good penmanship. But here it accrues...
Indeed, Radcliffe--funded largely on the whim of alumnae and by liberal endowment payouts--may not look like a good buy for Harvard, whose scrupulous investment strategies have solidified its claim as the world's richest university...
...That sort of defeated the purpose of having many diverse groups," Scanlon says. "It's all up to the whim of nine people who didn't know anything about performing arts...
...That sort of defeated the purpose of havingmany diverse groups," Scanlon says. "It's all upto the whim of nine people who didn't knowanything about performing arts...
TIME's emphasis on narrative storytelling as a way to put events into context is something that suits a weekly magazine. TV and the Internet are good for instant headlines and punditry. The Web is great for allowing people to explore links at their whim and drill down for raw data. But TIME can play the storyteller who comes to your front porch with the color and insights that turn facts into coherent narratives. Part of the process is telling the news through the people who make it. As TIME's prospectus put it: "It is important to know what...