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...Sweet Chariot”)“Cheng HO, sweet carrier, going for the old endzonnnnnne,Cheng HO (Cheng HO!), sweet carrrrrriiieerrr, goinnnggg for the old end zone.”I wish you could hear these dulcet sounds, but alas, we have not developed the technology to allow papers to talk and sing—yet. (Did you see Harry Potter? If wizards can do it, surely Bill Gates can, too!)This, my friends, is how you cheer. I’ve seen many students coming out to the recent home football matches. They sport their fancy...
...movement. Ahmadinejad has insisted that women have it better in Iran than anywhere else in the world, but ever the reformer, he tried to make it even better in recent months by attempting to revoke the veto granted to women whose husbands seek to take another wife, allow men to divorce their wives without notification, and absolve divorced men from paying alimony, the alternative to which is a heavily-taxed severance that leaves the divorced wife with only a small fraction of the original sum. These clauses the government added to the Family Support Bill were met with tremendous contestation...
...trade agreements that govern Chinese imports into the United States.Beijing’s foreign policy priorities should also be scrutinized. We are especially concerned by its continued foreign aid to the oppressive military regime in Myanmar, which has shot its own people on the streets and refused to allow legitimately elected leaders to take office. China’s refusal to put real pressure on the autocratic North Korean government – by stopping fuel oil shipments, for example – is also a major cause for worry. Finally, China’s policy towards the former...
...Though one of the goals of the simplified grading scheme was to reduce student anxiety, some students said that their peers would turn instead to extracurricular organizations in an effort to distinguish themselves. This, they said, would ultimately defeat the administration’s desire to allow students the time to enjoy the learning process...
...wealthy can shake their heads at the undeserving poor with no place in our society. We begrudge them cigarettes and cell phones, alcohol and drug use, unmarried sex, and even their ability to have children, forgetting King Lear in Act II: “O, reason not the need!... / Allow not nature more than nature need, / Man life’s as cheap as beast’s.” Instead, let’s look to Act III: “Take physic, pomp; / Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, / That thou mayst shake the superflux...