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...getting an overhaul too, so movies, MP3 players, TVs and cameras aren't strangers. The shining example is PlayStation 3, the fully loaded game machine that debuts in the North American market Nov. 17. "We've put a young guy in charge of the technology group to develop core software and media technologies, which we have not been good at," Stringer told TIME last week. Likewise, the components and semiconductor divisions have a new boss. And a global product-safety officer will make sure a battery fiasco doesn't recur. Out of this crisis, Stringer promised, "we're going...
...Every child is taught, ‘don’t solve a problem with violence.’ But it can be a huge dilemma in life, because you see that whole nations, they solve many problems with violence.”That institutionalized brutality is at the core of the film, in his mind. “Violence is the thing that my character is valued for, and the thing his country values him for, and he’s not valued for anything else,” he said. “After having turned every ethical...
...fantastically depressing”—and plays her character as a modern, witty Virginia Woolf. It’s fascinating, too, to watch her face off against Queen Latifah, who plays her assistant in some gratuitous yet excellent scenes. Most importantly, though, Thompson provides an emotional core and prevents the film from devolving into silly irrelevance.Bottom Line: “Stranger Than Fiction” is not your typical Will Ferrell comedy, but it’s not really much of anything else, either. Watch it only if you’re an Emma Thompson...
...this can only be interpreted as the will of a higher power for us to say something cute: Perhaps this is a clear reason why being Quadded isn’t so bad. Maybe this is the time to explain why fluid dynamics should be included in the Core. Possibly this is the key piece of evidence for understanding why the grass seems so much greener in Eliot. Perchance this can serve as the metaphoric link to arguing that, despite all the hours it spends debating, the Undergraduate Council doesn’t deal with crap. Or yet this could...
Please do not think me uncompromising—I do firmly believe that the Core Curriculum needs one hell of a makeover. And, unlike some complainers who do nothing but nag but can never be satisfied, I have a solution. We need our education to promote important life skills...