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...this is fine, if a little too stridently observed--see David sweat in slow motion. But then he finds his true love (Lynn Redgrave!) and Shine takes a dive into soapsuds. The film ceases to be a cogent study of the disease of genius and devolves into two lesser creatures: an ordinary weepie and an Oscar contender. Shine is not an instrumental but a choral work--a trusty hymn to the human spirit. You will be moved, ladies and gentlemen. Perhaps that is all you, and the Academy, need to know...
While the grants the Undergraduate Council gives to student organizations are extremely important, increasing them to 63 percent of the council's budget relegates the rest of the council into obscurity. Former council treasurer and vice president Brian R. Blais '97 wrote in a cogent post to the council's news-group that raising the amount the council allocates to the grants process cripples the other parts of the council, effectively precluding experimentation in new events and services for the campus...
...shortcomings, the Libertarian Party presents a truly appealing philosophy, because they, like the Founding Fathers, invest their faith in the intelligence, good-heartedness and responsibility of the American people to govern themselves. And while the current two-party system offers little hope of significant change, the Libertarians make a cogent case for substantial reform...
Redford frets that independent film now has a "Belle Epoque fashion." But if it's lucky, it will last as long, and weather as smartly, as its most cogent cheerleader...
There is little need to extol the virtues of a liberal arts education, especially to a Harvard audience. Its benefits include the ability to formulate a cogent argument, to understand the history of society and current events, to realize connections among different fields and disciplines and--most importantly--to write well. I admit that Harvard is not fulfilling all of those ideals. Its Core curriculum, currently under scrutiny by a faculty-student committee, does not even include a survey class on Western civilization because of a bureaucratic runaround last year. Its Expository Writing program does not necessarily teach students...