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...Look again. Directed by Michael Bay (Bad Boys) and written by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner, the movie is less a rip-off than a corrective. "This is the team-spirit action movie Mission Impossible should have been," says TIME's Richard Corliss. A tortured general (Ed Harris) and some renegade Marines seize Alacatraz, take 81 tourists hostage and threaten to launch gas rockets across the bay to vaporize San Francisco. An FBI biochemist (Nicolas Cage) is dispatched to defuse the weapons; a wily hermit (Sean Connery), the only prisoner to escape Alcatraz and live...
When General Education courses were created in 1946, faculty members expected the curriculum to eventually become mandatory for all students. But nowadays the only Gen Ed class everyone takes is Gen Ed 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection," taught by Agee Professor of Social Ethics Robert Coles '50 and widely considered one of Harvard's easiest classes...
...curriculum includes titles such as Gen Ed 103, "AIDS, Health and Human Rights"; Gen Ed 136, "Explaining the Holocaust and the Phenomenon of Genocide"; Adams 122, "Printed Books as a Field of Study"; and Quincy 121, "A History of Zoos...
...never had any student in my course who didn't want to be there," says Oettinger, who teaches Gen Ed 156, "The Information Age, Its Main Currents and Their Intermingling...
...conviction shared by both sides is that love, not law, conquers all. Sullivan writes that the heart of both marriage and being human is "the ability to love and be loved." State representative Ed Fallon of Iowa, who opposed a bill outlawing same-sex marriage, noted afterward, "There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a nonrenewable resource." It is one natural resource that neither side need be shy about exploiting...