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David I. Monteiro ’04, chair of the council’s Election Commission, warned candidates in an e-mail last night, “Do not commit these violations. In addition to being underhanded and completely inappropriate, we regard them as an extremely serious...violation...
...dropping leaflets in southern Iraq warning Iraqis not to fire on American warplanes--when it was fired on. Sometimes the scaremongering is done at a remove. Recently the Washington Post and the New York Times ran stories on the same day claiming that the U.S. was ready to commit 250,000 troops to an invasion; the double whammy stank of a calibrated piece of propaganda...
...everyone else," says Jackson, who co-wrote the script with Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh. "In the beginning, it was a difficult tightrope to walk, but then we sort of abandoned thinking about it. If we make a good film, we'll be forgiven, whatever the crimes we commit to the book." Arwen, the beautiful elf played by Liv Tyler, doesn't appear in the book. But in the film, Jackson has love scenes between her and Aragorn--a romance based on an appendix that Tolkien later wrote about their doomed relationship...
There may be other problems as well—Murphy has noted in the past that the administration of a school has to commit to a football program in order for it to succeed. Who knows what problems Columbia has had in that department—from recruitment, to scheduling, to the school’s general attitude toward its team. In a league in which coaches are “relieved,” not fired, these details rarely make their way to the press...
...complaint filed with the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, the MLDEF said Dershowitz’s proposal would violate an article of the Geneva Convention that innocent people cannot be punished for a crime they did not commit...