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Despite my initial concerns, the door to the JCR was unlocked, the TV was functional and the room was empty except for me and Rory. It seemed nothing was going to keep a guy from Connecticut (me) and a guy from Idaho from watching a show denigrating life in New Jersey. Except for Harvard University, of course...
Jedediah S. Purdy ’97, author of the best-seller For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today and an upcoming book on globalization. I wish I understood film. I didn’t learn anything about movies in college except a few trips to the Brattle. This whole vocabulary of sounds and images—all I can do with it is feel my way around it blindly. It’s really important for understanding what goes on not only in entertainment but also for film as a modern literature. I really regret that...
Scott F. Turow (Harvard Law School ’78), a lawyer and novelist. His next book, Reversible Errors, comes out in October. His previous best-sellers include Presumed Innocent and One L, a memoir of his first year at Harvard Law School. Every language except English. Physics, including the basic stuff, despite a miracle C in college. Who will fall in love with who. And if the Cubs will ever again play in the World Series...
...Russians were hinting very strongly that the latest fighting is the final straw. On Friday the tone seems to have calmed a little. Georgia is expecting retaliation, and not just in the Pankisi Gorge. That might be bombed a couple of times, but there's not much there except a few sheep. Instead, the Georgians expect a Russian military operation to break Georgia's grip on the Kodori Valley. Several pieces of Georgia have been nibbled away by Russian-backed separatist insurgencies since Georgia broke from the Soviet Union. The most independently-minded region is Abkhazia, to which the Georgian...
...briefly had to stop promoting the sandwich because outlets were running out of, what else, flatbread. In response to an outcry, McDonald's has changed its cooking oil to cut down on cholesterol-raising trans-fatty acids. Always known more for convenience and kid-friendliness than for taste - except, many would argue, when it comes to its superior fries - McDonald's still has a food problem. Despite shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars to install a new made-to-order cooking system that banished heat lamps from the kitchen, McDonald's consistently gets low ratings for the quality...