Word: forgottenness
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...drop the T.S. Eliot references. But only if you promise not to waste your time and money on - oh, let's say Smokin' Aces. It's possible that in some half-forgotten pitch meeting someone murmured the phrase "black comedy" in describing their intentions for the movie. It is also possible that names like Scorsese or Tarantino or the Coen brothers were bandied about in that conclave. But what they meant to say was "blood bath...
...What is beyond dispute is that the government is in seemingly perpetual conflict with a significant portion of its population. The N.P.A. should be a cold war relic, a forgotten insurgency rotting away in the Southeast Asian jungle. Instead-and despite its bloody purges, its "sparrow unit" death squads and its defunct ideology-it remains an enduring symbol of the failure of successive governments to improve the lives of ordinary Filipinos. Deep in the mountains, Comrade Victor has no doubt that his "protracted people's war" will outlast Arroyo's presidency, although in one sense...
...indicted on nothing, he strides on, overseeing everything from public housing and education to the details of an ongoing beautification initiative. It helps that some of his most unpopular moves, like his unilateral decision to demolish a small lakefont airport in 2003 under the cover of night, seem nearly forgotten. Meanwhile, he has accepted blame for not having had a better handle on the rampant job-rigging infractions, in which applicants for city positions who had political connections were favored over those with better qualifications...
...during the course of the day--with a few blips scattered here and there. That pattern typically changes, however, in people who are severely depressed. Their cortisol level still rises early in the morning, but it stays high all day long. It's almost as if their hypothalamus has forgotten how to turn off the stress response. (Intriguingly, people who are sleep deprived also exhibit a high, flat cortisol level...
...purpose of college education and Harvard’s struggle to define that purpose. When asked about his educational philosophy, Lewis cited former Harvard President James B. Conant ’14, who said that “education is what is left after all that is learnt is forgotten.” —Staff writer Carolyn F. Gaebler can be reached at cgaebler@fas.harvard.edu...