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...every student who has felt a nagging dread at the mention of student government, last Tuesday’s vote by the Undergraduate Council (UC) to disband one of its own committees must have brought hope. But students’ satisfaction with this bill should come from the hope that the UC, having shed an obsolete arm, will be more efficient, not from glee that the student government seems to be disassembling itself. It is not; rather, it is recognizing its reduced role on a campus with a new mechanism for social programming. After weeks of discussion on several different...
...story, building up with almost painful slowness the everyday lives of ordinary travelers. For example, Greengrass depicts one passenger rushing to make the flight and the stewardesses gossiping. At the same time, delicately orchestrated shots of the hijackers preparing for their suicide mission leave the heart pounding with dread by the time the airplane doors close. We all know how the flight will end, but that knowledge only heightens the tension of the journey. There has already been much discussion about how appropriate “United 93” is at this time. Theatergoers and the families of victims...
...short term. By demonizing Iran as part of an “Axis of Evil,” then launching a dubiously justified unilateral invasion of its neighbor and fellow “Axis” member, the U.S. thoroughly rattled the Iranian leadership, causing it to dread it may be next. Predictably, recent reports of U.S. attack plans and longstanding rumors of a “small” tactical nuclear arms program do not help. Rather than compelling Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions with threats of unilateral force—perpetuating precisely the fear that drove Iran...
...Patrick G. Mauro ’07. “We need more things like this.” Many of the students who packed the pool and bleachers agreed with him. But not everyone enjoyed being partially submerged in chlorinated fluid. Rather than experiencing a chilly sense of dread, Vanessa A. Pope ’07 just felt chilled. “It wasn’t that well thought out; it was really cold. I wish it had been a screening of ‘Titanic,’ because then the cold would have been more realistic...
Students who dread the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) need no longer worry—losing weight and staying healthy is possible just by doing laundry, bowling, or gardening, according to a new book by a Harvard Medical School researcher. Dr. Harvey B. Simon’s new book “The No Sweat Exercise Plan: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Longer” says that slight modifications to most people’s daily lives are enough for weight loss, disease prevention, and overall health. “For years, I believed that in order to benefit from...