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Harvard is fortunate to have in place a deliberative (and hopefully dispassionate) shareholder responsibility system. The faculty’s fundamental mission is to impart knowledge and humbly seek truth. This division of labor has the best chance of advancing the University and the rest of society it is meant to serve...
...When a male student mentioned Sojourner Truth as an example of a woman demonstrating courage and freedom, qualities Mansfield ascribed to manliness, the professor asked, “Have you noticed how much more assertive you have been than any woman in the room who has asked me a question...
...been an interesting character in a novel. Not here. As questions about Brenda’s sanity continue to mount, a discerning viewer of crap-tacular melodrama will remember Moore’s similar role (child is abducted and no one is sure that the mother is telling the truth about the abduction) in the Roth-produced “The Forgotten.” But that abduction was done by aliens. There are no aliens here. Just Moore’s shaky Jersey accent...
...Fear Eats the Soul,’ there’s more truth in that title than most whole films.” Would hearing a pretentious Production Assistant declaiming these words—a reference to a classic film by German filmmaker Rainer Warner Fassbinder—induce peals of laughter? If you answered yes, then “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story” is the perfect movie...
...title of the novel indicates, Malcolm intends to explore the consequences of fleeing and, if not forgetting the past, then omitting it. Leo’s efforts to protect his family from the truth range from the understandable (blindfolding his daughter as they pick through the debris of a bombing) to the absurd (refusing to tell his wife about his financial devastation...