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Therefore, Harvard should modify Stanford’s calendar to make each trimester earlier by a few weeks. The fall term would begin after Labor Day, with exams before Thanksgiving. (As courses’ exam groups are published in advance, students who want desperately to get home to California or otherwise spend their late Novembers away from school could choose wisely and still get a longer Thanksgiving vacation.) With a winter term just beginning, the intense pressures to study over the holidays would be gone; and, for that matter, Thanksgiving would be salvaged as well, following immediately after fall exams...
...course, the government can base legislation on morality to a certain extent; but the power to legislate morality must end at some point in order to allow personal liberties to begin. I would like to think that in America, we are autonomous at least to the extent that we can determine our own morality so long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of others. Whose rights are violated by homosexual marriage? Homosexual marriage appears to be about as victimless as a “crime?...
After months of agonized waiting for her high-profile trial to begin, Martha Stewart looked almost upbeat last week as she finally had her first days in court. Sporting clean-line pantsuits and clutching a Hermes Birkin handbag (starting price: $6,000), she looked--for once--perfectly out of place in an otherwise musty courtroom in downtown Manhattan. And when the judge unexpectedly delayed for a week testimony from Douglas Faneuil, a key government witness, Stewart left the courthouse with a smile on her face...
...race that's over before it used to begin ... A ratings ploy that could backfire ... On Oscar night, Hollywood may produce its own disaster movie. --Reported by Desa Philadelphia and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...camera but lots of sex and nakedness--that they think might be fun to make in their parents' apartment. After the clueless mother and father depart on vacation, the kids shed their duds, their inhibitions and such political consciousness as they have. The demirevolution of the spring of 1968 begins to gather riotous force outside their windows while they play mainly degrading sexual games indoors. Eventually they find themselves eating garbage. Eventually Isabelle flirts with suicide. Eventually a revolutionary rock, tossed through their window, awakens the dreamers from their dream, and the French pair is last glimpsed throwing Molotov cocktails...