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My spies inside the Columbia Pictures have confirmed that Tom Hanks is set to star as Robert Langdon in the film version of THE DA VINCI CODE. The studio will set May 16 or May 15 2006 as the worldwide release date for the film. So it will be released on either mine or Gabriella’s birthday .
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Literature & Art Across Frontiers: Debating chambers are becoming echo chambers: America's one-party Act
Academia is simultaneously both the part of America that is most obsessed with diversity, and the least diverse part of the country ...
Tom Wolfe’s new novel about a young student, I am Jozef Imrich, is a depressing read for any parent. Four years at an Ivy League university costs as much as a house in parts of the heartland—about $120,000 for tuition alone. But what do you get for your money? A ticket to “Barn House”.
In Mr Wolfe's fictional university the pleasures of the body take absolute precedence over the life of the mind. Students hook up (ie, sleep around) with indiscriminate zeal. Brainless jocks rule the roost, while impoverished nerds are reduced to ghost-writing their essays for them. The university administration is utterly indifferent to anything except the dogmas of political correctness (men and women are forced to share the same bathrooms in the name of gender equality). The Bacchanalia takes place to the soundtrack of hate-fuelled gangsta rap.
• If you loathe political debate, join the faculty of an American university [ Students hear only one side of the story on everything]
• · How does this conservative (John Derbyshire) look forward to a new Tom Wolfe novel? Let me count the cool ways The cool guy does not flatter anybody or act obsequious or even impressed by somebody The Wolfe And The Sheepskin
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• · · · Profoundly deepening the shallow waters of the modern-day confessional. You won't really know yourself without reading it. I was a character Tolstoy or Dostoevsky had created, I lived in their novels as their characters lived in me
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