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...reveal the hopes, worries, and humanity that underlie it. It’s disconcerting because although we like to admire our candidates from afar and know the intimate details of their lives, what we really want is not a personal connection but a dependable president. But some of the world??s best leaders, Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt included, held deep convictions of their own. They believed so passionately in their words that emotion inevitably followed. Indeed, these taboo appearances of genuine feeling have come to serve as the only indicator that a politician is anything more than...
Harvard professors are rubbing virtual shoulders with the world??s premier minds on a Web site launched by two alums. The site, BigThink.com, bills itself as “a YouTube for ideas” and aims to bring the technology of video-sharing to the service of intellectual discourse. It was funded in part by former University President Lawrence H. Summers. “The goal is really to recreate the vibrant space of a university or a think tank—where ideas get exchanged all the time—online, where it?...
...respect from the public and their peers, Nicholson and Freeman feel free to let loose and embrace a project that lacks the substance both actors are known for. Other cinematic aspects, however, fail to rise above average holiday-movie fare. While the film features some breathtaking shots of the world??s natural and man-made wonders, overall the cinematography feels pedestrian. Many of the extreme stunts and locations appear computerized, lending a gimmicky sense the scenes. The script tends to be heavy-handed, relying largely on dialogue to convey emotions, instead of leaving the storytelling to Freeman...
...point where it has served an important role in developing Stanford’s hip-hop scholarship and really facilitating the areas of hip-hop and organizing resources and activities and work that’s been going on in universities and organizations in this country and in the world??and now its time to use the hip-hop expression to the next level.10. FM: Word. Who’s the most overrated rapper right now? MM: Part of my reluctance to be severe in the critique is that some of these people are teenagers. I hope they...
...thinks he was chosen as one of the Fifteen Most Interesting Seniors. Well, yes, but that wasn’t the primary reason. At the unusually young age of 12, Koh, an extraordinarily gifted cellist, won the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, which he considers the musical world??s affirmation that he was ready to perform and influence people with his music. Koh took that charge seriously, and has performed for audiences all over the world, winning some of his craft’s top prizes and accolades. For one year, he played on a Montagnana...