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...great uniting force, as people black and white, rich and poor can come together around the barbeque for some delicious hot dogs and burgers. As it stands, the Co-op’s vegetarianism alienates those liberals like me whose support of a progressive agenda does not discount their love of hearty sausage. We want to have our steak...
...wide array of operas, from the classics of Puccini to more modern productions. Last year’s Nixon in China, by John Adams ’71, was a highlight of the season. Although student rush tickets are not available, tickets can be purchased at a group discount starting at $27, not unreasonable for a night at the opera...
...DoCoMo, its successful mobile-phone service spun off in 1992 (NTT still owns 64%). But two new entrants in the fixed-line industry have rocked the company's complacency. Last August, Softbank, a leading Japanese broadband provider, announced it would begin offering traditional home-telephone services at a discount. Two weeks later, KDDI, Japan's second largest mobile-phone carrier, said it too was invading NTT's turf. NTT quickly reduced prices to match its competitors', but the cuts will hurt: Deutsche Bank forecasts that NTT's revenue will decline by 15% over the next two years...
...wish to bring balance to the faculty’s parochial perspective on undergraduate life. While Summers’ recent remarks and disrespectful style are unfortunate, the real tragedy would be if the faculty’s current discontent with the man were used as a pretext to discount his important ideas on undergraduate reform...
...conclusion: far from stalling the reunification of Germany, as some British and American scholars have argued, Mitterrand saw it as inevitable. His main concern was that a reunified Germany be firmly anchored in a unified Europe. "One can discuss Mitterrand's ethics or morals, but no one can discount his absolute belief in European unity," says Schabert, author of Mitterrand et la Réunification Allemande. University of Nantes historian Frédéric Bozo, whose broader work on Mitterrand's foreign policy at the end of the cold war will be released in May, also comes...