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...combat concerns that an advising center would be impersonal, some faculty have suggested that the current system under which a minority of first-years is advised by non-residential faculty members with similar academic interests should be expanded...
...though demoralizing—were less destructive and more infrequent before the recent assistance of Shiite militia. Rather, the current alliance has resulted in increasing violence and a loss of control in important cities, while continuing to refute President Bush’s rash claims that major combat is over. The situation on the ground confirms fears that a large, expensive, long-term military presence and effective security force is the only solution...
...take their place. The demonstrated ease with which these socially-engineered viruses have spread is an tantalizingly simple way to achieve hacker immortality for anyone familiar with Visual C++ at the …for Dummies level and above. And with antivirus companies releasing new updates daily to combat new variants, even day-old protection files can damn computers to virus hell...
Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ has certainly done its bit to combat Christianity lite. The film's stance on atonement could best be described as substitutionary (that initial Isaiah quote sets the theme) with a strong dose of Catholic Passion piety (the very gory details), a pinch of exemplarism (the flashbacks to Jesus' teachings) and those sulfurous whiffs of the ancient good-vs.-evil model. In other words, an understanding almost as eclectic as the average American's. Will it convince anyone of any particular philosophy? Perhaps not, but it is a reminder that the question...
...description. What other trade compels a person to travel halfway around the world, get up at 5 a.m. each day, dress and talk funny, gain or lose 40 lbs. and make simulated love or war with a near stranger? The decamillions that movie stars pull down may amount to combat pay. And if they do it for next to nothing--well, that's either noble or very ... weird...