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Eager crowds formed lines around the Congregational First Church up to an hour before Atwood was scheduled to speak, thumbing through copies of Harry Potter novels along with Atwood’s best-sellers—The Edible Woman, The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin among them—as they waited...
...College, students are admitted on a need-blind basis. The school pledges to make Harvard affordable through direct aid, work study, loans and other school-sponsored means. But Summers has not said what putting the graduate schools on the College’s level would practically mean...
President Bush, meanwhile, maintains an approval rating of 87%, according to last week's TIME/CNN poll, paralleling the increased faith in government generally. But that trust is not blind. "Americans expect government to step in here and do its job. It is not a glassy-eyed love of government," says Paul Light, a scholar at the Brookings Institution who co-authored a recent report on changing attitudes. "What we're seeing here is a demand for action. It's a tenuous surge in trust." The number of people who say they have "a great deal of confidence" in the government...
...member Grace United Methodist Church in Denver. "I'm troubled when the most common song I hear sung today is God Bless America, and I keep saying, '...as well as the other nations.' I'm not opposed to patriotism, but I'm opposed to having it be blind to the reality of the total world. I've been trying to select hymns that have a more global perspective...
...filmmakers are further thwarted by their decision not to cast “normal” looking actresses as the less attractive women Hal sees once his appearance-blind hypnosis wears off. Instead, we get actresses whose idealized bodies and faces have been altered with fat suits and prosthetic noses. This may simply be due to the nature of the roles—why an overweight woman would demean herself by playing one of these characters is beyond me. Nevertheless, the obvious “uglification” of female cast members lends no authority to the filmmakers?...