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...anyone or anything less urgently in need of parody than Jacques Cousteau, the saintly French oceanographer whose underseas documentaries, from the '50s through the '80s, did so much to make the world aware of the beauty and fragility of our watery ecosystem. But the sheer audacity of this basic joke--its awesome satiric irrelevance--is the crucial thing about The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. If you go with it, you'll love the film. If you don't, you'll just sit there wondering how (and why) Wes Anderson, the director and a co-writer (with Noah Baumbach), thought...
...review also calls for basic science courses to be added in the third clinical year—something currently made difficult by the rotation system. Thibault says that now administrators must decide how to fairly compensate and recognize faculty who will teach the additional courses and mentor students...
...Genese?" was interesting but hardly surprising [Oct. 25]. The answer to the basic question of whether religion was created by man from cues sent from above or a sense of the divine evolved in us has long seemed obvious to Northern Europeans of my generation: man made God out of a need for a God and benefited from the invention. I was, however, surprised by the reverence the story showed toward religion. But then it struck me that this attitude might be a genuine example of the American mind-set--that religion really matters. That goes a long way toward...
Although many in the media are gloating over what they consider to be the U.S. failure in Iraq, the game is not yet over. The Americans are approaching their objective: to change the basic parameters in the Middle East by introducing democracy. The millions of voters who turned out in Afghanistan are a prime example. Why not talk about the courage of the Iraqi Prime Minister and his team, who are constantly at risk? The strength of the Iraqi people, despite the suffering they have endured for so many months, illustrates their yearning for democracy and political maturity. Some...
...will continue to opt-in for opting out. I encourage students to continue to push for change while respecting their peers’ rights to opt-out, except in those situations where basic rights are at stake. And when the Faculty meet to decide on whether to approve the opt-out wind power initiative, I encourage them to reject superficial slippery-slope arguments about the demise of the termbill as we know it and embrace opt-options for what they are: creative and democratic means for implementing positive change...