Word: deal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Returning alumni who remember and try to relive their days of "wine and roses." (College deans consider homecomings the hardest to deal with...
...there's a strange twist to the attention the media has lavished on conservative students and faculty lately. For the most part, they deal only superficially with the substantive political issues setting conservatives and liberals apart. Instead, the theme of the Harvard Magazine article--which doesn't even pretend to be objective--is that conservatives are Harvard's newest minority, a group of students stifled by a dominant liberal orthodoxy. We're supposed to come away from the article believing that at Harvard, conservatives are somehow being oppressed...
...camera eye. Fittingly, since the script praises the hidden beauties of the world, this is itself a deeply beautiful film. Its static compositions by Conrad Hall are overloaded with vibrant colors and symmetries that make you almost want to cry. On the surface, Mendes has packed a great deal into this movie, and he maneuvers like a pro through its quicksilver shifts in tone -- from blackest comedy to fiercest tenderness and all the bathos in between. It feels like there is a great deal here, and it's presented with extraordinary ease. I found my reactions changing even...
...Life After Harvard, as the people at Let's Go put it. After college, they enter the land of suits and early mornings and parties that don't stink (literally). And for that, they have to be ready. The first day of school is just practice for that important deal...
...back by such a reversal, particularly since accepting Kosovo's independence would also imply tacit acceptance of the ethnic cleansing of the territory's remaining Serb population (given the track record, there is little chance that any non-Albanians would remain in an independent Kosovo). The peace deal that ended NATO's air war with Yugoslavia earlier this year explicitly affirms Belgrade's sovereignty over the territory; breaking that agreement would tempt the Serbs to try and recapture at least some parts of Kosovo, and would very likely jeopardize NATO-Russian cooperation on keeping the peace there. In short...