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...desk phone rings, and as I pick it up, I hear the sound of my boss on the other end. “How does the Mexican peso rank right now?” he asks, as always making sure that I’m on track. I silently applaud myself for having just checked this figure and answer my boss as confidently as possible. “Very good,” he says and abruptly hangs...
...land and into reality. Action, not words, saves lives when terrorism is involved. Millions more would have been saved if we had acted "illegally" toward the Nazi regime in the 1930s. The free world has much to thank George W. Bush and Tony Blair for, and I for one applaud their courage. Brian Cummings Wirral, England As the U.S. commemorated the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the U.S. government continued to maintain several hundred people in an illegal prison at Guantánamo Bay. Don't Americans realize the damage they inflict on their own image, democracy and ultimately Western civilisation...
...Knights cantering out of the Dark Ages into modern Britain, where the film sputters brazenly to its close. But a Broadway show moves irrevocably toward cues for applause, either at the end of a scene or for the climax of a song. The crowd at a musical expects to applaud, they want to applaud. And we already know that applause is something Idle enjoys hearing...
...Fields and the MAC. Some facilities, like the Gordon Track and Field Center, also have unused space where cardio machines from the MAC should be placed.Certainly, the MAC’s closure will be inconvenient this spring. But that is not reason to indefinitely delay renovations. We appreciate and applaud FAS’s decision to renovate, particularly when Harvard’s plans for expansion into Allston have been used in the past as an excuse for putting off infrastructure renewal.Ultimately, the success of this initiative depends on the MAC and Athletic Department staff backing up their assurances. Student...
...communities where they belong. With these interventions, our social engineers hope to create idyllic residential communities à la the Oxford/Cambridge collegiate system (whereby students live, study and mostly socialize within their 100-200 person housing groups). But rarely do such campaigners actually examine the system they so heartily applaud. At Oxford, and other schools with similar artificially constructed communities, students are segregated not by interest or choice, but by random fortune. The result is a narrower social sphere with friendship groups based roughly along the lines of first-year stairwell housing—or whoever else students are lucky...