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...even some of the more modest predictions about Jacob Zuma's rise to power had been correct, South Africa would be an empty, corrupt dictatorship by now. Back in 2006, South African memoirist Rian Malan ended his dismal assessment of the nation's prospects ("Not civil war, but sad decay") in British magazine the Spectator by asking: "Anyone want a house here?" A year ago, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said he was "deeply saddened" when Zuma staged a party coup against his predecessor Thabo Mbeki, "deeply disturbed" that both had used institutions of state in their struggle and warned that...
Those who die young - not just Lena but actors like James Dean and Heath Ledger, politicians like Jack and Bobby Kennedy - are robbed of life but also of aging and decay. They are frozen at the apex of their beauty, power and promise. So lovers like Mateo, and movie lovers like the rest of us, have that perfect vision as a perpetual keepsake. Almodóvar knows it too: a dead love never dies...
...would reduce it by $127 billion—not to mention the other, more difficult to quantify elements such as the excise tax on high-cost insurance that will bring down costs as we grow. On the flipside, if we keep the current system, our general fiscal health will decay along with the initiative of many might-have-been trailblazers. The CBO has also estimated that by 2016 premiums will be $15,000 for a family of four in the Exchange, well below the $24,000 family premium expected if Congress fails...
...despite this dabbling, Harvard mothers needn’t start worrying that their Ivy dollars are contributing to the mass decay of society. Users on campus, despite being users, are ultimately still Harvard students, too concerned about their academic success and artistic integrity to fall into serious dependency. When all is said and done, they want to produce high-quality art that will resonate with an audience on an emotional, intellectual level, not a chemical...
...investigation, which was commissioned by Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 in August, found that leaking water has caused the concrete slabs holding the train tracks to decay and shift out of place in the stretch of the Red Line that runs between the Harvard and Alewife stations...