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...yourself lost in an impenetrable, moving mass of people is hardly rare. That's why, in search of a subway stop on a recent Sunday, I failed to notice that I'd joined a protest march. It wasn't until the woman next to me offered a sweet bean cake and a petition to sign that I realized that I was surrounded by Filipina women. Some 6,000 angry Filipinas, I was later to learn...
...confines. For those who do, it’s unclear exactly what these $100 grants are intended to pay for. The primary expense associated with hosting a college party is alcohol, which is not allowed at freshman parties. Sure, freshmen could go out and buy a Finale cake to enjoy with a small group of friends. But the UC isn’t in the business of providing scrumptious study breaks—proctors are. The UC party grants are designed to create some semblance of a normal college social life, something that freshman generally cannot provide without violating College...
...this a political thriller? In part, yes. The film has whispered conspiracies, a typewriter smuggled inside a cake box, the sexual compromising of a beautiful woman, a violent death. But those are mere trappings of a social structure that puts everyone at mortal risk, the spies no less than the spied upon. The narrative is a noose, tightening around all the characters--and the moviegoer...
...series started,” said Cuse, who spent three weeks in Hawaii, where the show is filmed, with the other writers planning out the new season. “We view ourselves as making a character show first, and the mythology is sort of the icing on the cake,” he said. “We try not to have the characters obsess about the mythology because it’s hard for the audience to become attached to them.”A PLAN IN MINDCuse said he leaves the obsessing to the audience. After...
...this sounds fine, but it's also a little like campaigning for delicious, low-fat cake. Who's going to disagree? Greens love anything clean and renewable and have even, for the most part, come around to the virtues of nuclear power, providing strict safety standards can be maintained and someone can figure out what to do with the waste. The energy industry loves nukes and clean coal, and if they have to make a little room at the table for windmills and solar panels, well, that can't hurt too much. Plus, Bush also called for doubling the size...