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...seem absurd, but war planners in both countries, though ostensibly no longer adversaries, care very much about even the smallest incremental adjustments that would alter nuclear parity. And so not just the tone of negotiations but their goal must be set just right. Zimmerman and other arms-control experts argue that a good deal for a new treaty would be to keep the counting and robust verification system of the START treaty in place, but with a moderate goal of reducing the number of weapons. Obama himself has indicated that he favors a modest first step. At the Carnegie International...
...This certainly resonates at Harvard, where student ambitions drive them to absurd, unhealthful behavior as a matter of course. One student I know put himself through the gauntlet of a 14-hour-per-day summer lab job pipetting in the hopes of snagging a future Harvard Medical School admissions letter; another suffered an existential crisis because he felt that none of his extracurriculars were sufficiently frivolous enough to show employers he could have fun. The anxiety runs deep—next Wednesday, the Office of Career Services will attempt to soothe those whose goals have been dashed with a panel...
Klavan, Andrew •absurd contention of that Rush Limbaugh is not a vile, hate-spewing ignoramus - "I have never heard the man utter a single racist, hateful or stupid word" - but is actually "raucously funny and wise" and that anyone who fails to appreciate this "has never actually listened to the man," and is "a lowdown, yellow-bellied, lily-livered intellectual coward" who is "terrified of finding out he makes more sense than...
...such as Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett—were also exploring theater’s possibilities by rejecting conventions such as sequential time patterns and logical dialogue. “The Birthday Party” is part of a movement in the history of theatre which embraces the absurd, and in turn, seeks to unsettle the audience by disorienting them with a menacing and horrifying atmosphere. “We are expecting a sense of confusion from the audience… because even we have a sense of confusion [about the play],” says Bryce J. Gilfillian...
...blood there,” Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) explains nonchalantly to her younger sister Norah (Emily Blunt) in “Sunshine Cleaning,” the new film from the producers of “Little Miss Sunshine.” Her cool, collected approach to such absurd proposals—a crime scene cleanup business, in this case—epitomizes what Big Beach Films continues to get right, despite its predictable recipe for indie flick humor.The biohazard removal business shines as a beacon of hope for the film’s lovable, but not particularly successful...