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...least, that's how the legend goes, being such a handy window on the life of the boy who was left to sink or swim as he was tossed between boarding schools and across time zones by his hard-driven diplomat father. Perfect story, admits Kerry, except that it's not exactly true. "There is so much mythology out there," Kerry says, with evident frustration. "Let's clear this one up." Yes, his father was an austere man, hard to please and even harder to know. But sailing was one of the things John and his father could share, like...
...long. The movies changed. In the '50s, the screen widened to CinemaScope proportions while the audience shrank more than 50% and a panicky Hollywood pretty much abandoned small, tight character-driven dramas. But Brando didn't change. He remained an adolescent idealist, loving the art that had redeemed his incorrigible flakiness but becoming increasingly lost and miserable in this new context. The daring of this work somehow made people laugh uncomfortably. And Hollywood, which will first indulge those it intends to humble, turned against him, blaming him, sometimes unfairly, for cost overruns and box-office failures. Now self-loathing seeped...
...years. That means that for every €100 earned, an average single Irish person gets to take home €75.50; a Belgian earning the same, by contrast, takes home just €45.50. Introducing his 2004 budget in February, Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy boasted that this low-tax policy has driven unemployment in Ireland to a historical low, well below 5%. Could bigger countries adopt the Irish model? Many argue that Ireland's remarkable economic performance in the '90s was due at least as much to E.U. subsidies as to any fiscal policy. Moreover, Irish growth has slowed, and lower...
...change that. Bush has polarized the U.S. into camps of those who love the President - who believe that, since Sept. 11, 2001, he has shown steadfast leadership at a time of great peril - and those who hate him - who believe that his Administration has been dangerously mendacious and driven by ideology, and who regard the war in Iraq as a diversion from more pressing targets in the struggle against terrorism. President Bush is a man who sees the world in black and white, and who is seen back by it in the same way. The extraordinary success of Michael Moore...
Fellows Election Coordinator Kevin P. Kiley ’07 described the selection process as highly student-driven...