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...fruitful, and I would walk home with a heaping box of donations. But people don’t remember to bring things to the dining hall.” Kmiecik speculated that the limited campus participation was due to the busy time of year, when “volunteer-wise everyone is stretched thin.” But he said the drive’s message has broad appeal. “You’ll find very few people that will say ‘I don’t support the troops...
...Brody’s cranky grandmother keeps you in stitches even as the rest of the movie moves at a snail’s pace. From answering the door in the nude to constantly lecturing Brody on her much-anticipated death, Dukakis more than fills the role of the wise-yet-caustic matron.Despite being somewhat miscast, Ryan, Stewart, and Brody possess the acting chops to gently carry “In the Land of Women” to a possible Golden Globe pity-nomination. But Kasdan’s script gives the actors little to work with. Instead of achieving...
...uniquely disarming: a mélange of strikingly understated, philosophy-tinged awareness, with a streak of beach-style casual that puts the listener at ease. It leads to gems like “bureaucracy’s a gross thing, dude,” and “being wise would be so tight.”If there’s one person who hears these lines the most, it’s likely UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, who between phone calls (15 to 20 a day), e-mails, text messages, meetings...
Sadly for Xiang Xiang, the tough love backfired. In a subsequent encounter with a woods-wise cousin, he tried to escape by climbing a tree. Evidently that wasn't part of survival training: the bear fell and, from what rangers could gather, probably broke a leg. Rangers haven't been able to find Xiang Xiang, whose radio collar may have malfunctioned when he fell. Still, Zhang Hemin, director of the Wolong center, insists his charge had to be banished. "We did not want to keep Xiang Xiang because that would have shown our experiment had failed," he says...
...during his return to University Hall this academic year, released a letter earlier this month outlining a plan for faculty growth and renewal, calling for most of the net growth over the next three years to take place in sciences and engineering. “The direction is surely wise and appropriate,” said Edward L. Glaeser, the Glimp professor of economics. “Amazing things have been happening in the sciences in the last 15 years and it is absolutely critical that Harvard be in the forefront of scientific learning.” The chair...