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...word status. "It seems quite clear now that our economy maybe never suffered a recession," Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said last week. Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Wells Fargo, agrees: "I personally don't believe we went into a recession." By one measure they're correct. Recessions are commonly defined as at least two consecutive quarters of declining gross domestic product, a measure of national output. This slump didn't make the cut. There has been just one quarter of negative growth, last year's third quarter, when GDP fell at an annualized rate of 1.3%. GDP rose...
...product of the politically correct 1990s, Mulan unquestionably takes liberties in reinterpreting elements of the traditional story, but the movie is ultimately a celebration of its subject and her choices. Unlike the female leads in Disney’s earlier features, Mulan’s physical being is expressed through training and battle, not in low cut tops and thigh-baring miniskirts. Though some will grumble that the film’s conclusion undercuts its empowering message (the triumphant heroine returns home for marriage and traditional filial piety), Mulan nevertheless represents a clear break from the Snow White archetype...
...seems that the main objection Emma S. MacKinnon ’05 has to the Miss Harvard pageant is that IMPACT, the group sponsoring the show, has “politically correct ambitions”—we haven’t done enough to “challenge the beauty pageant regime” (Opinion, “Miss What?” March 13). As the president of IMPACT, I don’t see this as a problem—IMPACT is, by virtue of our mission statement, an apolitical organization...
...poise and originality.” While we may learn just how flexible the guy from section is or how many sharp objects our roommate can juggle, the show will shed no light on what makes traditional beauty pageants so distasteful. Impact’s politically correct ambitions ensure that nothing meaningful will happen. But at least they will avoid offending people—except, perhaps, with boredom...
...POSTURE The classic images of T. rex showed him standing upright, with tail near the ground for stability. The correct posture is shown in this skeleton from Chicago's Field Museum: the beast balanced its weight over its hips like a seesaw...