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...Party of Japan and the front runner to be Japan's next Prime Minister (if he can avoid the fallout from a scandal over political fundraising), said "giving a sense of security to the population" was key to economic recovery. Ozawa argues that only if families feel that their basic needs have been taken care of - needs like health care and provision for retirement - will they go out and spend money on new cars and clothes. There's a lesson for the U.S. there too. Health-care reform in the States isn't just an egalitarian goal; it's also...
...little donkey that knows the route.” For modern audiences, it may smack of the sentimental, but for a generation whose national will had all but dissolved, this cinema of hope was more than welcome. “There was constant negotiation and improvising on a basic framework that made [the Plan] very alive and very pragmatic,” Schulberg says.“It’s cool that we get to see them projected in the way that the people experienced at the time,” says Ned R. Hinkle, the Creative Director...
...they were really instrumental in pushing the administration. All of my students are super excited. They’re really enthusiastic about learning how to craft music specifically for video games.” Other, more traditional music programs generally only offer one semester classes that serve as basic surveys of video game scoring. Berklee’s curriculum, however, continues to grow with the enthusiastic support of its students, the college, and the public. BIGGER THAN A BLIPComposers with training in film scoring who looked to commercial media for career options are now turning to the video game industry...
Wikipedia, I would make a donation, which is more cost-effective.” Alexander P. Biega ’10, however, said that publishing Wikipedia articles in book form is a “fantastic idea” that would be “easy to use for basic info.” Many in the Harvard community expressed concern over the fact that any Wikipedia user can edit the content of articles, which they say undermines its reliability in an academic setting. Stephen Pinker, an acclaimed Harvard psychology professor, said, “I think Wikipedia...
...argument has won little favor with human-rights groups. "In our view, Section 144 is a draconian colonial-era law that flies against the most basic principles of freedom of assembly," said Ali Dayan Hasan of Human Rights Watch. "We have repeatedly called for it to be abolished. Any use of the law is by its nature oppressive. Last year the government won plaudits for allowing the same march by lawyers to proceed to Islamabad. It is disappointing that the Pakistani government feels the need to revert to an authoritarian tradition that is best left behind...