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...that other sacred summer institution, the low-brow extended-play sitcom, I will admit I have a special place in my heart for them. I certainly cherish smarter, subtler comedic works more than any gross-out bodily fluid showcase, but there’s something to be said for a movie (Old School and Meet the Parents immediately come to mind) that can make me laugh continuously for an hour and a half. That is an accomplishment that is rarely replicated in the independent film community and holds merit far beyond the average half-assed comic-book adaptation...
...Condoleezza Rice prepares for her long-awaited testimony before the commission investigating al-Qaeda and the Sept. 11th attacks, a look at Israel's experience with terrorism is instructive. It may shock Americans to learn that Israeli leaders freely admit that the growth of Hamas was partly a tragedy of their own making. Israel made a conscious decision to allow the Islamist movement to grow in the West Bank and Gaza in the early 1980s, hoping that this would undermine support for Yasser Arafat's PLO. "In retrospect we made a mistake," former Defense Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer told...
...have to admit, it stung a little. When I picked up my New York Times last Tuesday morning, I immediately turned—like a good editorial columnist—to the op-ed page. And there staring back at me was David Brooks’ column, entitled “Stressed for Success?” The piece analyzed how “the [college] admissions process has gone totally insane” and why high school seniors should strive, as hard as it might be, to keep their college acceptances and rejections in proportion. So far, so good...
Sweet is the first one to admit that sometimes she might even take on too much when she’s one the ice, itching to get in on the fray...
...make me angry that Mathews was unwilling to admit there might be a problem with his tactics,” said Ellen C. Quigley ’07. But she added that she was happy he addressed the class because “anything that gets people to think is a valuable experience...