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...about high school she would pull out her hairpins and do a pole dance; here she's the voice of maternal reason. Jenny's romance with David has deepened, and she has started telling off her superiors, recklessly burning academic bridges she might need to cross on a return trip. Miss Stubbs urges Jenny "to go to Oxford, no matter what. 'Cause if you don't you'll break my heart...
Teachers' and schoolgirls' hearts are made to be broken, and An Education makes that trip too. Virtually the entire cast contributes to make it an enchanting ride. Sarsgaard, a stalwart of Amer-indie films (Kinsey, Elegy, Jarhead) who as Trigorin was also Mulligan's love interest in The Seagull, easily inhabits David, making him a creature of charm and mystery. The smaller roles are nicely filled out as well, including Cara Seymour as Jenny's quiet mother and Matthew Beard as a gauche student whose dreams of dating a precocious teen Jenny and Jack keep smashing...
Highlight Reel: 1. Why you can't avoid gridlocked hubs: "69% of all air travelers in the United States traveled exclusively between the 100 largest metropolitan areas. Another 29.9% of passengers traveled through one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas at some point in their trip. In sum, 98.8% of all passengers in the most recent twelve months passed through at least one of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas. In the U.S., air travel is clearly a large metropolitan phenomenon." (See photos of protests against Heathrow Airport's expansion...
Jenkins divides his time between serving as a TF, a tutor at Lowell House, the Director of Sophomore Advising, and a Ph.D. candidate. Studying primate biology as an undergraduate at Columbia University, Jenkins never expected to end up where he is today. But after contracting malaria during a research trip to Kenya, Jenkins decided to switch to literature to feed his obsession with the Victorian novel. Though the two topics seem unrelated, Jenkins sees a clear connection. “In both disciplines, you are searching for great significance in the tiniest details, great meaning in minute actions and things...
During one trip on the outskirts if Xi’an, the group discovered Lue’s playful side...