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"Why don't you just fire me?" asks Al Percolo (Albert Brooks), the downtrodden but game talent hunter in The Scout. "I thought of that," snaps the meanest general manager in baseball history (Lane Smith), "but I like this better." Al is talking about his scouting assignment so deep in...
What Steve has instead is awful, desperate Al (Brooks is, of course, a peerless portrayer of all the great American falsities -- piety, humility and the good cheer with which we habitually mask desperation). Steve also has his own violent innocence, which tests the limits of Al's smarminess hilariously. The...
Consider the achievements since 1993 alone, when Bill Clinton invited Maya Angelou to be the first poet since Robert Frost to read an original work at a presidential Inauguration. George C. Wolfe won a Tony Award for his direction of Angels in America. Novelist Toni Morrison became the first black...
For the last several years, Coles has been trying tirelessly to involve students in the community through Philips Brooks House programs and the core curriculum. The University has not yet been a willing party to Coles's efforts. But the new Report on the Structure of the College says the...
Cambridge school volunteers and several other organizations, including the Phillips Brooks House Association, worked together to define the needs of Cambridge youth, Allen and Golden said.