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...principles of free enterprise and the right of every citizen in a just and fair society to decide how and when to purchase what they will are the cornerstones of any democratic meritocracy. Dorm life is not a mandatory egalitarian process imposed upon us by the College to distort our view of how societies run best. Nor is it a system designed to paternalistically decide what is fair and unfair consumption based upon income brackets. Rather, dorm life is a system designed to facilitate our studies here. The vast majority of students elect to live in the Houses?...

Author: By Joseph T.M. Cianflone, JOSEPH T.M. CIANFLONE | Title: The Case for DormAid | 3/24/2005 | See Source »

...egos of human beings. He proposed none of the massive restructurings of society familiar to us in our own times: revolution, socialism, democracy, capitalism or regime change. He insisted that suffering is a mental experience, born from desire, attachment, hatred, pride and envy. These were the "negative emotions" that distort and confuse the mind and lead it into a pursuit of such goals as power, possessions and sensuous pleasures. When thwarted, they lead to frustration and suffering; and even when fulfilled, they can only turn into another source of unhappiness, for the happiness they bring is always fleeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happiness Viewpoint: A Deeper Sense of Happiness | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...national allocation plans have been far too generous in allotting emissions rights to companies," says Oliver Rapf, a climate-change expert with the environmental organization wwf. If that charge is true, it's not just bad for the environment; it will also distort the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emission Impossible? | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

...TIME: Some see rewriting the constitution as being tantamount to a declaration OF independence. Chen: I think those who interpret [constitutional reform] that way are making a grave mistake. The Beijing authorities distort our process of democratization into an intention to move toward Taiwan independence. The constitutional-reform project follows the line of our democratic reform. For more than four years, I have wanted to improve and normalize cross-strait relations, and to maintain peace in the Taiwan Strait. I am a maker of history. I have two historic missions. First, I want to hand over to the 23 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strait Talk | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

...easier it is to do with computer animation. The more organic something is, the harder it is. Everything about a human is organic. The audience looks in the mirror every day, so if you don't get it right, it's obvious to them." The solution: comically distort the subjects' features, make 'em cartoony. As Bird says, "You want them to be caricatured and believable. Disney used to call it 'the plausible impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: All Too Superhuman | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

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