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...have, as yet, no other currency. A culture that takes pride in its intellectual achievements also needs to create a university system it can be proud of. And - though it may sound unapologetically capitalistic to say so - there are times when even a certain crass Americanism has the ring of authority: you get what...
...work one morning, McGeever lured Pollack to the comedy club where they had first been introduced, serenaded her with Lionel Richie’s “Hello,” and presented her with the heirloom engagement ring that had been presented to his grandmother in 1935. After Pollack tearfully replied, “Sure,” the couple enjoyed a surprise breakfast that McGeever had planned at the Four Seasons...
...Phil Griffin, the executive producer of “Hardball” and an MSNBC vice-president, steps into the ring five days a week with his notoriously pugnacious star, Chris Matthews...
...diagnosed with mental disorders in ever-increasing quantities. His suggestions—that “the age of onset [may be] dropping” or that, in the past, “young people with mental disorders might not have made it to Harvard” ring hollow; perhaps it’s rather that college administrators, who ought to be the ones caring for and listening to students, instead want to explain away any dissonance between the realities of student experience and the persistently happy, fully-functioning normative individual by recourse to our determinate and inviolable...
...even when the dance was absent from the stage, the production’s energy never flagged; I have never seen a stage with so many smiling faces, and this helped to make this somewhat hokey musical ring true. Chief among the grinners was Olivia A. Jennings ’06, who starred as Nellie Forbush; even as the audience laughed at some of the cornier moments on stage, Jennings never stopped being, as she sings, “as corny as Kansas in August.” Jennings also proved an excellent singer and dancer, but her smile...