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...moment of high drama, but it paled beside what happened next. Last Thursday, Litvinenko himself died in a London hospital, after having ingested a "major dose" of the radioactive toxin polonium-210 that destroyed his immune system, according to Britain's Health Protection Agency. Scotland Yard said that traces of polonium-210 - which is so rare and volatile that producing quantities large enough to kill requires access to a high-security nuclear laboratory - were found at a sushi restaurant called Itsu in Piccadilly where Litvinenko had eaten lunch on the day he got sick. Traces of the isotope were also...
...police to address on a case-by-case basis, but we are living in a serious city with serious problems, and the occasional party with loud music and a little bit of (gasp!) underage drinking is not one of them. The real people in need of a dose of sober reality are not undergraduates trying to enjoy the occasional weekend but the Cambridge community leaders who have somehow gotten it into their heads that preventing Harvard students from having a good time is more important than preventing them from getting mugged at gunpoint...
Like a bracing dash of water to the face, it's useful to have a dose of realism added to America's innate idealistic instincts every now and then. It's also useful to be reminded that the easy-to-swallow bromide about how our ideals are the same as our interests is, alas, not always true in a messy world...
...While “The Dorm Room Diet” does offer a good dose of college-focused health suggestions—such as dorm exercises specific to our cozy quarters—there is nothing earth shattering about Oz’s advice. Take, for example, Oz’s approach to combatting those heavy eyelids that hit during mid-afternoon: “If you find yourself falling asleep in class, ask to go to the bathroom and then do a few jumping jacks and stretches in the hallway to get the blood flowing throughout your body...
...Hidden is this kernel of wisdom: “Our show pretty much lets you know: there is no perfection, just levels of flawed humanity.”Those are big words that the show’s writers back forcefully by imbuing each episode with a healthy dose of human folly. Unfortunately, the mere mortals in the show don’t come off as people so much as representations of varying types of lust. This lust-driven view of human relationships stands in stark contrast to that of “Seinfeld,” where...