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...happens to be a dubious claim. Sure, movies, music and TV shows have value--as do, I feel compelled to add, magazine columns. But they alone have never generated the huge, reliable profits that keep investors happy and pay for midtown-Manhattan skyscrapers. No, the big money in media has always been in distribution...
...that the Republicans have ceded control of Congress, they can do what they do best: claim to have the answers to everything without actually doing anything. After six years in power, Republicans have given us a massive deficit, a broken military, a loss of civil liberties and two disastrous wars. Of course they are smiling--they are con men who have nothing to sell. David M. Caballero, Tucson, Ariz...
...blogs and at meetings with Harvard officials that the art center’s proposed building on Western Avenue does not fit community needs. Many cited building heights and a roof garden that would boast a view of residents’ backyards as main concerns.Despite Daly’s claim that the art center will be community-focused, Lentz said at the Feb. 12 Harvard-Allston Task Force meeting that HUAM is “not the MFA,” emphasizing that the museums are not attendance driven.“What Harvard is saying is that their mission...
...infield and outfield couldn’t work together. There wasn’t the space to do it.”The space issue aside, club teams are dead last when it comes to choosing practice locations. As a result, the squads had no claim on varsity venues and many, such as the Ultimate Frisbee team, were forced into inconvenient and unsafe spaces like Gordon Track.Interior lighting means that these teams can practice late at night, preventing overlap with varsity sports. Now, Ultimate Frisbee shares the space with men’s rugby and gets an hour...
...Iraq war has challenged the conservative movement's custodianship of America's place in the world, as well as its claim to competence. Reagan restored a sense of America's mission as the "city on a hill" that would be a light to the world and helped bring about the defeat of what he very undiplomatically christened "the evil empire." After 9/11 Bush found his own evil empire, in fact a whole axis of evil. But he hasn't produced Reagan's results: North Korea is nuclear, Iran swaggers across the world stage, Iraq is a morass. "Conservatives are divided...