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...revolutionary-themed room was perhaps the most intellectually stimulating. On one poster, the Whites who battled the communist Reds in the Civil War were portrayed as wine-swilling fat cats not dissimilar in manner to the depictions of their red-white-and-blue-hatted American counterparts on the congruent poster. Another work in the room focuses on conspiritorial links within the League of Nations between the capitalist nations to destroy the Soviet "threat." Yet a more extreme print reworks a Russian fairy tale about evil people (fat capitalists) attempting to uproot a turnip (a national symbol), whereupon the turnip rises...
Indeed, that you allowed the column attacking Padilla to run at all without considering the possible defamation involved demonstrates not only that you have difficulty comprehending and tolerating opinions dissimilar from yours, but that you also have scant understanding of the maturity and care required to run a newspaper...
...McMillan, author of the current best seller How Stella Got Her Groove Back, remembers being inspired by Morrison's books in school and then sensing, once her own work began to be published, that the elder author was not offering her much encouragement. (They write, to put it mildly, dissimilar fiction; Morrison is about as close to Faulkner as McMillan is to Judith Krantz.) Those feelings have passed. When she meets Morrison now, McMillan says, "we hug each other...
...happy people band, a safe band, an integrated group of nice boys who play golf--a comfortingly Eurocentric sport--and who specialize in songs that are tuneful and direct, such as their irresistible sing-along hit Hold My Hand; indeed, the band's cheeky but wholesome appeal is not dissimilar to the early, hand-holding Beatles'. Detractors basically agree with this characterization. But they find the straightforward, seemingly optimistic nature of the band's music profoundly, aggressively boring and see the group's goofy, Dan Marino-in-a-cameo videos as shamelessly unironic throwbacks to the don't-worry...
...occurring. Most notably, the opening of emerging markets, specifically South East Asia and Eastern Europe, and the high-tech revolution have increased competition, challenges and, most notably, uncertainty. Even at a university with both stature and tradition, these changes have not passed by without notice, and a situation not dissimilar to the one described by the members of the classes of 1939, 1940 and 1941 is emerging. I would like to offer some ideas abut the impact these rapid developments have had on Harvard and its students and what possibilities exist to cope with these challenges in a beneficial...