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...strategy for the primaries. Getting Bush to loosen up in the debates was part of it. Saturating New Hampshire with new 30-sec. ads, to the point where Bush is outspending McCain in the Granite State air war more than 3 to 1, was another. But the most critical element was the decision to simplify Bush's message. Instead of waxing lyrical about "compassionate conservatism" and running through a checklist of memorized policy positions every time he speaks, Bush has tried to hone down his message as much as possible to just two issues: tax cuts and education. By showing...
...This ambitious plan for science and engineering is a crucial element in Yale's strategy to remain among the very small number of universities that are considered the finest in the world," said Yale President Richard C. Levin in a press release...
...then again, Primal Scream contains a distinct Harvard element as well. At other schools, more students might choose to run during the spring, when chafing and other symptoms of over-exposure are less likely. At this college, however, the larger crowd generally appears in the winter. Running naked during warm weather is too easy. This particular student body always needs a challenge...
...easy to make Snow Falling On Cedars sound like a traditional murder mystery. It is nothing of the kind. If the mystery were the primary element in the film, the emphasis would lie on the information in Ishmael's pocket: what is it, how does it prove the defendant's innocence, etc. But these questions are dispensed with well before the film's midpoint. Instead, the trial of Kazuo Miyamoto (Rick Yune) is used to introduce us to the world of San Piedro Island and the chain of misunderstanding that has led to the alleged murder...
...Fred Hood and company have cleverly toyed with the concept of the known and unkown, an important element of the play, in their adaptation of Wilde's comic chef doeuvre. The set design, in particular, contrasts the real and the imagined, the familiar and the foreign, the west and the non-west. The first set, where the male protagonists first discuss their desire to play Earnest, is a wonderful mix of European fin-de-siecle charm and the exoticism of the East. Long silk saris drape the fabric wall paper of this 19th century English drawingroom. A hookah adorns...