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...Harvard. And Darren Aronofsky '91 went to Harvard. I was talking to him and I was very disappointed-I was disappointed by your institution. I was talking to Darren in casual conversation one day and I mentioned Puccini, the music of Puccini, I can't remember what the context was, and he had no idea who Puccini was. I was really upset by that. I went, "Darren, Puccini? Madame Butterfly? Tosca? Do you know operas?" He went, "No, what is that...
...such meteorological events occurred within the context of a Shakespearean play or a Greek drama, the bizarre weather in Britain--concurrent with unusually severe typhoons in Taiwan, floods in Bangladesh, fires in Italy and droughts in Burundi and Iran--they would have stood as an omen portending the death of a king or the end of an empire. Humans have long interpreted the wrath of the (literal) heavens as punishment for their earthly transgressions. If our modern, secular selves were to sit up and take notice of ten thousand years of weather interpretation, what evil deed might be to blame...
...Charlie's Angels" also offers us cute, peppy Cameron Diaz as the most adorable of the Angels; Drew Barrymore as the most vulnerable of them (she seems actually to be acting now and then, which is probably a mistake in this context); and Lucy Liu as the most ferocious, albeit in an interesting, crabby way. Under the guidance of a music-video director who is known simply as McG, they all manage to not quite fall out of their costumes numerous times...
...talking about the present search, Stone frames many of his remarks in the context of his work on the 1990 search...
...survey of moral leadership through various episodes and stories. The stories themselves are, for the most part, valuable on their own, and the topic of moral leadership is obviously one that receives a great deal of discussion and debate, especially, as Coles points out, in the context of this year's presidential election. And yet at first glance, Lives of Moral Leadership is not very weighty or academically substantive. Each of the different chapters deals with a different story, but in the end (and this is a somewhat reductionist conclusion) it's all the same...