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That makes an Eastwood lead role a movie event--especially since he's hinted he would stick to directing from now on. About Gran Torino, he recently said, "That will probably do it for me as far as acting is concerned." (We hope not. At 78, he still looks great.) He might have been kidding, but you'll want to catch the film in case it really is the Lone Thespian taking his last ride into the sunset...
...Anjali Adukia, a student at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education who helped coordinate the event, said that she was especially encouraged by the diversity of the turnout, particularly the large presence of Pakistani students...
...could never walk away from an event like this and say that Indians and Pakistanis don’t care about each other,” she said. “At the end of the day, we are just two trees that formed at the same base...
Even at Harvard, a supposed champion of intellectual honesty, most are afraid to acknowledge the problem that exists within Islam. In 2006, when Muslim students protested the Harvard Foundation’s sponsorship of a talk by Hirsi Ali, the Foundation pulled its sponsorship of the event. When Hirsi Ali came anyway, a coalition of Harvard Muslim students stood up and screamed at her, rattling off her supposed crimes against Islam and declaring that it was she who was responsible for Van Gogh’s death. This is only one example of the culture that is arising at Harvard...
...listener to trigger negative thoughts,” he said. Pinker pointed out that semantic distinctions can make a big difference when economic costs are involved. He asked students to consider the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “When a person is asked how many events occurred that day, the answer can vary from one, in reference to the single terrorist plan, to two—as in the number of buildings destroyed,” said the psychology professor. “The cost of semantics in this case happens to be $3.5 million per destructive...