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...hero of the new novel, Willie Chandran, spent most of Half a Life being another of Naipaul's "mimic men"?his term for a person from a former European colony (India, in this case) who has grown up without knowing how to live, except by aping his erstwhile rulers. Willie has done one smart thing early in life: he escaped from India and landed in London?for Naipaul, the center of civilization, and the best place on earth to make a real man of yourself, which is the goal toward which he urges all his fictional characters. Willie, alas, keeps...
...league play. If it can claim victory in its final five conference matches, the squad will take the Ivy title, hang up its cleats and call it a year. If the Crimson drops out of the top spot in the Ivies, its season becomes meaningless, except for a final game against Yale that well over half the student population would rather tailgate for than show up to. This makes every league game crucial and every non-league contest utterly worthless, since the concept of postseason play is about as foreign to Harvard as the score or number of outs...
...couldn't stay a child. A blind man on his own had to be an instant grownup--insisting he get paid in singles, say, to avoid being cheated. Charles wouldn't baby himself (except for his heroin habit) or let others kid him. What he says sounds arrogant, but it's a fact: "I walk out alone in the dark and do something no one's done in music and business...
Director Peter Chelsom’s new movie, Shall We Dance?, has a dance card full of big-name actors but leaves its audience with little except bruised toes. A remake of Japanese director Masayuki Suo’s 1996 film of the same title—from which it imports most scenes and some dialogue—the movie ultimately seems as bungling on its feet as many of the characters it portrays...
...seem to dictate that turning oneself over to employees of the University after losing 12 consecutive games of beer pong must result in disciplinary action. As such, many freshmen interviewed for this story said that, prior to treatment, they would not have gone to UHS for alcohol-related maladies except, perhaps, as a very last resort...