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...ironic that a faculty that promotes collaboration and cross discipline communication so often tells students how much they do know, instead of teaching them what they don’t. This mentality only douses the incentive to learn from others, creating students without humility and perpetuating insular behavior and close-mindedness...
...implants)—the daughter of one of Brooklyn’s famed dry cleaning éminence grises—relentlessly hits on Leonard while he pursues Michelle. “I love you,” he tells Michelle, with a stare that could turn Glenn Close to stone. “I didn’t think I’d ever love anyone again. But I do. I love you.”Like “We Own the Night,” “Two Lovers” sees Phoenix moping around...
...People's Republic of Gambling, Las Vegas was catering to its Asian clientele. The Encore is no exception. The elevator panel shows the floors climbing to 63, but floors numbered from 40 to 49 are missing, since the pronunciation for the number four in Cantonese and Mandarin is too close to the word for death. Very bad chi. On the life-fulfilling side, the Encore has a 60,000-sq.-ft. spa and gym that caters to any marathon-running, mani-pedi-wearing Zen master. Entry to the treatment rooms is through a colonnade of massive vases and brass lanterns...
...spurts and cascades themselves. Visitors drive down the slope from the forested uplands of misty fern to the coastline of cracked rock to watch the molten lava rivers that regularly explode into the Pacific under massive steam clouds. The foolhardy climb over the heated ground to catch an up-close glimpse of the liquid rock, despite the pleas of the park service. (See 10 things to do in San Francisco...
...next five years - although how that aid would be distributed, a crucial question given Pakistan's rampant corruption, has yet to be determined. Military aid to Pakistan will continue as well, but with more strings and supervision than during the Bush Administration. "We have to re-establish close personal relationships with the army," said a senior member of the National Security Council, who was involved in an intense series of meetings with the Pakistani military leadership during the first week of March. "We have to be sure they're on the same page as we are. Based on what...