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...their list of priorities. But I am stuck in that wonderland of my youth, where my grandfather still brings home the New York Post every day and I, rather than explore issues of national importance like the death of Anna Nicole Smith, immediately flip the paper over and engross myself in box scores and betting lines.Although I am usually able to control my fixation, every now and then I feel that urge. It could come at any time, but for some reason it chooses to appear the most when I’m writing a paper for a class. Before...
...final sublimation of Radcliffe College into Harvard. Dean Faust arrived on the scene in 2001, just as Radcliffe was making the transition from “college with a research institute” into a true Institute for Advanced Study. Today, fellows at the Radcliffe Institute are able to engross themselves in their research without some of the usual burdens of academic life. “Scholars work out at the boundaries of knowledge, take risks, break old patterns and are enabled to do so without the pressures so common in present day academia—[namely] to publish quantity...
...from New York for the BBC ... Since his BBC broadcasts are beamed to stations throughout the world, he is one of the world's most influential commentators on U.S. affairs ... Cooke focuses on minutiae. As he sees it, they tell more about a culture than the big issues that engross most journalists. [On] reverence for the flag, for instance ... he recently wrote, scarcely any other country shows such a high regard for that symbol. U.S. laws, he was surprised to find, prohibit use of the flag for ornamentation. So when he once looked for a box of candy with...
...century. This documentary shows the making of war through his eyes, from the Cuban Missile Crisis through the Vietnam War. The documentary, directed by genre master Errol Morris (Fast, Cheap and Out of Control) utilizes frank White House tapes, startlingly surreal images, and an extraordinary Philip Glass score to engross an audience that may otherwise have little interest in the subject matter. Morris never compromises his vision of McNamara as a man whose regret has opened floodgates of wisdom (upon hearing one of the admonitions apparently directed at the current administration, an audience member actually began clapping), but who remains...
...century. This documentary shows the making of war through his eyes, from the Cuban Missile Crisis through the Vietnam War. The documentary, directed by genre master Errol Morris (Fast, Cheap and Out of Control) utilizes frank White House tapes, startlingly surreal images, and an extraordinary Philip Glass score to engross an audience that may otherwise have little interest in the subject matter. Morris never compromises his vision of McNamara as a man whose regret has opened floodgates of wisdom (upon hearing one of the admonitions apparently directed at the current administration, an audience member actually began clapping), but who remains...