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...motherlessness of the main characters, so familiar to viewers of Disney movies, also squeaks by without becoming cloying. Anthony has discovered that a whimpered “My mum’s dead” allows him to get candy, avoid punishment, and otherwise misbehave, a fact which he exploits throughout the film. This faux-cavalier attitude toward his mother’s death makes the moment when he finally acknowledges his pain genuinely emotional, rather than just cheaply sentimental...
Millions may lack the dark, subversive appeal of Boyle’s previous films, and if you are looking for a similar jolt, it’s best to avoid it. It is, however, that rarest of film commodities, a heartfelt feel-good film whose sweetness is palatable even to the cynical...
...let’s avoid these impossible angles and focus on the real problem in what you’re saying: your claim of high-mindedness. I’m not sure exactly what you mean by that, but there’s no way that you can possibly believe that Blur’s art-pop pedigree schtick is less high-minded than Oasis’s “tough guys with a sneer” schtick...
...point of affirmative action in the admissions process is to bring diversity to Harvard College. Diversity comes in many forms. There are many upbringings that cannot be described on paper or through checkboxes on a college application. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions should therefore avoid the temptation to place students in boxes. Instead, it should allow students to present themselves in whatever manner they see fit, and trust them to do so, perhaps by adding an optional diversity statement to the application. Implying that the Office of Undergraduate Admissions does not believe students are who they say they are sets...
...departments seems to diminish departmental autonomy. Claiming that these committees will promote female and minority hiring implies that the departments can’t do this on their own and implicitly places the blame for dismal hiring statistics on departmental hiring committees. Summers will likely not be able to avoid this minefield if he continues to push for divisional appointments, and he probably shouldn?...