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Technology and freedom have long gone together, marching lockstep throughout history, each in tandem conferring benefits upon the human race and releasing humankind from its abject servitude to capricious nature. Now, the historical process has culminated in yet another palpable victory for human freedom. Soon, online course registration will liberate Harvard students from the tyranny of the study card...
Untold goes the explanation for a sudden toss of a fireman dummy off a six story building to the abject horror of a producer talking on his cell phone below. Also untold remains the origin of Jay Russell’s nickname, “Spanky the Monkey,” which haunted the director throughout the entire shoot...
...horrifying carnage that ended the hostage crisis at a school in Beslan, in southern Russia, was a gruesome reminder of the abject failure of President Vladimir Putin's own "war on terror." At least 320 people are reported to have been killed Friday after Russian troops stormed a school to free more than 1,000 civilians, mostly women and children, held captive by a group of masked Chechen gunmen demanding that the authorities free their jailed comrades. As Russians reeled from the impact of a savage terror assault on children, President Putin on Saturday visited the scene and promised...
...haze, I found myself looking into the far reaches of the old, overgrown empire—fertile Punjab farms, the plains of Kenya, the plantations of Virginia. The finished postcard canvas was cold and foreboding: Ferraris and investment banks and high manners alongside Wordsworth’s thronged alleys; abject poverty beside obscene wealth is a good place to write history or poetry but not much of a place to live...
...have observed students in an infinite variety of states, but never in a state of abject humility,” Summers quipped, recycling a punchline from his 2002 Baccalaureate address...