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Like Aronofsky, Huizenga also deals with love, and the desire to make it last in the face of inevitable decay and death. In a pair of related stories Ganges sits at home with his wife. In the first, they get into a discussion of the Beatle's song "She's Leaving Home," which Wendy feels is "lame," but Glenn defends as touching. Though the debate centers on a song about a child leaving her parents, the idea of being elderly and alone suddenly causes Wendy to burst into tears. Later, in the second vignette, Glenn lies next to his sleeping...
...Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse, who denounced last February’s first Faculty meeting as a “show trial,” left Cambridge to deliver a pair of speeches at Emory University...
...Potter founded the Brooklyn Brewery in 1987, the rest of America was drowning in Bud Light and loving it. There were only 33 other microbrewers in the U.S., and few people knew or cared why a 100% malted-barley lager might taste better than the King of Beers. The pair rarely thought about getting rich. "Mostly the motivation was not going broke," Potter says. At one point, they worked in an unheated warehouse, wearing fingerless gloves while filling out invoices...
...Drawing on their own and others' research, the pair argue that the speed of societal change has far outstripped that of our evolution as a species. In hunter-gatherer times, parents raised children close to nature and with the support of their tribe. Children's need for constant and unconditional love is unchanged. But few parents can meet it while juggling work and family in a world of hard edges and twisted values...
...going into the first match—we just did our normal routine,” Wang said. “It came down to [Mukundan’s] match. She played amazingly and we pulled out the win.”Though Harvard’s top doubles pair of O’Riain and Anderson avenged a defeat in the fall with an 8-2 win against the Bulldogs’ Shadisha Robinson and Caroline Basu, the Crimson was unable to claim the doubles point as Georgia’s No. 2 and No. 3 pairs held...