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...HUDS’ refusal to move to a system with more student choice is typically justified by a concern for “House atmosphere.” If students aren’t forced to contract for 21 meals per week, they will choose to eat away from their Houses much more often. And if fewer people take their meals in the dining hall, House life and communal spirit will be critically damaged. Or so the argument goes...
Iraq will get new attention with Waxman in power. This week he plans to send a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld demanding information on Halliburton's $16 billion contract to provide services to troops there. Waxman's staff has been poring over the fine print of that deal for more than two years, and is convinced that much of the money is slipping between layer upon layer of subcontractors...
...that" state, which it calls Southern Tibet. Beijing has also complained that Delhi is throwing up unfair barriers to investment by snarling Chinese companies in bureaucratic red tape, and chafed at a decision to bar a company linked to the Chinese military from taking up a lucrative air cargo contract, apparently over security concerns. And, of course, China remains a close ally of Pakistan, India's archenemy, a friendship Hu will shore up during talks with President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad as soon as he leaves India...
Both of these alleged incidents involve a production team skillfully executing a strategy to manipulate individuals into supposedly unlikely actions. Liquoring up some frat boys to distort their judgment before offering a contract is certainly unscrupulous. But in the end, these boys were offered a choice, albeit a drunken one, and hanged themselves by their own words. In the case of Glod, the villagers were not given a choice, which not only makes the filmmakers legally liable, but goes against the entire movie’s premise...
...title of The Game’s sophomore effort, “Doctor’s Advocate,” is an homage to Dre, a fellow Compton native who discovered The Game in 2002 and gave him his first recording contract. Following a bitter feud between The Game and 50, The Game left Dre’s Aftermath label for Geffen because, as he said, he didn’t want 50 (who records for Aftermath) to make any money on his latest...