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...book is driven by a rather unlovable character. How did you come up with Bunny? Very early on it was a script. I wrote it for [Australian film director] John Hillcoat, who wanted me to write about a traveling salesman. I watched this documentary about a 1960s traveling salesman and then I interviewed some of the guys. What emerged was a culture of alcoholism and drug taking and womanizing, and I made an individual character from that...
...Bunny thinks about is sex. Constantly. Is he supposed to be relatable? I wanted to write a character that men recognized, that was very important for me. I think I succeeded in doing that. That's not to say that all men are alcoholics or sexual predators, certainly not. But there is a way in which we view the world that is not unlike some of the stuff that goes through Bunny's head, a sort of running sexual commentary. Some men will admit this and some men won't. Women also like the character because I've revealed something...
While some may write off this interaction as simple children’s idolatry, the impact of Harvard athletics is even more evident on older Cambridge sports-lovers...
...said. “People wanted to share their experiences with me, and felt it was important that this book be written.” Paul Baranay, a junior at MIT, wrote an introduction to the segment of the book dedicated to the 2000s. Baranay was asked to write the introduction after Lotman read his description of life in Harvard Square on a MIT admissions Web site. “I never would have expected to be in this book. It is a very exciting project, an ambitious project and a vital one,” Baranay said. The Coop...
...Afghans have developed a sixth sense about survival: they can detect subtle shifts of power. Rarely do they have qualms about changing to the winning side, even in midconflict. In an essay on the Taliban for Foreign Affairs magazine, Afghanistan expert Michael Semple and MIT political scientist Fotini Christia write: "Changing sides, realigning, flipping - whatever you want to call it - is the Afghan way of war." (See pictures of a photographer's personal journey through war in Afghanistan and Iraq...