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...characters are marked by their devotion or lack of it, not their horniness. (The writers and directors seem to be saying: No sex, please, we're skittish.) But both kinds of films are puritanical in their take on sex. They're either reluctant to show it, or bound to exact mortal payment...
...wish to articulate the exact challenges that Harvard’s next president must address. In a series of editorials, under the banner of “The Search for a President,” we will focus—as we believe you should—on the concrete issues that the next president will have to address...
...dutty wine, then have a dutty wine competition. None of the dancing in the video is particularly impressive, and much better renditions could be found any weekend on campus. The backgrounds are animated, and poorly, making the video look distractingly cheap. The choreography does not extend beyond an exact translation of the dutty wine, with a few moves that could pass for a high school talent show piece. Even though dancehall videos often do not have the budget of a pop video, much is lacking from Matterhorn’s piece. It’s so literal-minded and poorly...
...lecture was over, we all sat in the lobby and waited to go in for our brief, closed-door one-on-one. During mine, he told me never to take methadone, I guess because I am so skinny? “Never take methadone,” were his exact words. I won’t reveal anymore of what the Mad Russian told me—I don’t want to spoil the program for any of you smokers out there—but I will offer this: back in 1999, a reporter asked him to explain...
...consider cutting off the grain and oil supplies not covered by the U.N. resolution, but upon which North Korea's survival is heavily dependent. As the country responsible for almost 40% of North Korea's trade and most of its energy supplies, China is certainly in a position to exact a heavy price for any further nuclear provocation...