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...wrote an opinion article on this subject in the Wall Street Journal earlier this year with three retired senior diplomats including Henry A. Kissinger, cited the different the challenges that the United States faces in the post-September 11 world as one of the impetuses behind his growing concern...
...Eating disorders are certainly a serious concern. Anorexia has a fatality rate of five to 20 percent according to the National Eating Disorders Association, which is significantly higher than the suicide risk for depression , and it is particularly likely to occur among women of college age. But we have to treat this illness by educating students about risk factors and symptom detection in their peers, not by attempting to keep nutritional information out of sight...
...film’s lack of a believable backstory; integral information is incessantly missing from the plot. What happened to the world last time? What made it fail? So many questions go unanswered that it can at times be somewhat tiresome. Even so, the movie does address certain concerns that mirror issues of the world today—one such concern being what the government is really doing and what information they are withholding. Another strength of the movie is composer Andrew Lockington’s original score. His fast-paced and jumpy music carries the movie, making the viewer...
...seems to have forgotten that figureheads like Al Gore have already made his arguments accessible to the masses and, perhaps, in an even more appealing fashion. Friedman’s knowledge of the science behind a hot, flat, and crowded world is relatively deep, and he expresses moving concern about America’s role in fostering responsible economic growth in emerging markets. But all of this becomes diluted in Friedman’s attempt to make his message user-friendly. His chapters feature a preponderance of italicized, monosyllabic words, saccharine metaphors (“we are all sailing...
...Vice President Randall S. Sarafa ’09 echoed this idea, saying that any reform must include students representation on the Ad Board. Concern was also raised that resident deans voting alongside their superiors might be less willing to fight for a student’s cause. Resident deans serve as the primary voice for any student in their House who has to appear for the board, regardless of their point of view on the issue, and they still have a vote on any case they defend...