Word: die
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Traditions die slowly at Harvard. Despite repeated assurances that the University has nothing to do with the final clubs, it is clear that the status quo prevails. The Ad Board has demonstrated that it cannot effectively discipline the final clubs. Until the University assumes responsibility for such things, we can do nothing but look forward to more barbaric, uncensured behavior...
Live by the polls, die by the polls. The same surveys Luntz and Gingrich employed to stitch the contract together last summer are now compelling some Republicans to think about unraveling it. Nearly five months after the midterm election, Americans are worried more about reducing the deficit than reducing taxes, jeopardizing what Gingrich calls the "crowning jewels" in the contract. The popularity of spending cuts in general remains high, but the prospect of cutting school lunches and welfare benefits for indigent parents is distinctly less so--a harbinger of trouble when deeper and more specific cuts in middle-class programs...
...most people, a momentary lapse of memory seems no more serious than getting the hiccups. But Los Angeles attorney Sally Weinper shudders every time she misplaces a file or draws a mental blank on a fine point of law. Weinper, 54, has already watched three aunts die of Alzheimer's disease. And now her mother is suffering from this terrifying illness that slowly destroys the brain and mind. "Because I know I'm at risk," Weinper says, "this insidious threat runs through every day of my life. To be trapped in your body but not be able to formulate words...
Telling his story in three movements (Words, Faces and Pictures), Manchevski deliberately blurs group identities. You have to strain to understand what ideals the people in this film are willing to die for (and, more to the point, kill for). One's idea of God as opposed to another's? The heritage of one's blood as opposed to that of someone else's? As we lean in to catch their garbled, often hysterical self-justifications, we also catch a larger point--that none of these principles is worth a single human life...
...very easy targets. Unlike U.S.-owned vehicles in other trouble spots around the globe, the van did not have armor plating or bulletproof glass, it appeared to follow the same route every morning, and the driver was not trained in ambush-escape techniques. "These folks didn't need to die like this," says Larry Johnson, a former State Department counterterrorism official who now heads a security consulting firm. "This was avoidable...