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Ultimately, the decision is Mubarak's. The President shows no signs of giving in, and he does not seem ready to leave office any time soon. Having come to power as the result of the assassination of President Anwar al-Sadat, he seems resolved to avoid any descent into chaos - which he appears to believe is a parliament not effectively under his control...
...Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) in full Batman regalia as he perches atop a Gotham skyscraper, surveying the city he lives to protect, then leaping off and spreading his majestic bat wings to swoop down into the night. Bruce's trajectory is also the film's. It traces a descent into moral anarchy, and each of its major characters will hit bottom. Some will never recover, broken by the touch of evil or by finding it, like a fatal infection, in themselves...
...specific battle is, if narrow, also essentially accurate. Flags Of Our Fathers zeroes in on the soldiers who hoisted the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, and this task, memorialized in a famous staged photograph, was accomplished by five white servicemen and a sixth, Ira Hayes, of Pima Indian descent. (His other entry in the Iwo Jima category, Letters from Iwo Jima, is told largely from the perspective of Japanese soldiers...
...numbers speak to the success of eliminating Early Action—a record 11 percent of students in the Class of 2012 are of African American descent, while 9.7 percent are Latino, 1.3 percent are Native American, and 18.5 percent are Asian-American. This is truly remarkable, given that this increased diversity does not come at the cost of quality of applicants. We hope that other colleges will follow Harvard’s example, considering how beneficial the elimination of early admissions policies is to high school students and universities alike...
...taken since I’ve been here,” co-captain David MacDonald said after the game. “They outplayed us in pretty much every aspect of the game.”The loss came near the beginning of Harvard’s descent into a long, winless winter. The team did not see a win for almost two full months. The Crimson lost to teams that it had handily defeated earlier in the season such as Rensselaer and St. Lawrence.“As soon as December and exam time hit, we just sort...