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...World War II, the Hungarian aristocrat Count Laszlo de Almasy finds his ideal desert woman and follows her to hell. He then lives, just barely, to tell the tale to a ministering angel (Juliette Binoche) who can give him what he needs: not absolution but understanding. The lovers are Ralph Fiennes--all coiled sexiness, threat shrouded in hauteur--and Kristin Scott Thomas, who has the gift of making intelligence erotic; they come together in a dance of doom that is abrasive, mysterious, powerful, inevitable. Anthony Minghella's beautiful film, based on the Michael Ondaatje novel, gets the rapture right, with...
Heaney will give up his position as Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory, a chair he has held since 1984, to become the first Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence...
Although the position created for Heaney is new, poets Robert Frost and Robert Lowell have each held similar posts. Frost held the Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellowship in Poetry from 1939 to 1941, and Lowell was the Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecturer on English Literature from...
Amid the growing public concern over the mortal danger of air bags, it may be hard to imagine anyone's standing up and declaring that they are among the most effective safety devices ever developed for cars and trucks. Yet that is just what auto-safety experts like Ralph Hoar believe. "The debate over air bags has always been distorted," argues Hoar, a consultant in Arlington, Virginia. "Air bags have been sold as the silver bullet that will save you or the lead one that will kill you. They have been oversold and demonized...
Just as Simpson's speech was given prominence, so have other conservatives who have appeared at Forum events. When Ralph Reed spoke on Oct. 30, he could not have received a warmer introduction from Mark Merritt, a former Republican National Committee chieftain who runs an Institute of Politics (IOP) study group this semester. This demagogue Reed, whose unctuous invective against "moral decay" was the embodiment of religious hypocrisy, whose appropriation of the Kennedys' rhetoric served only to undermine their name and that of the school, was welcomed by the K-School establishment in order to promote (over C-SPAN...