Word: exist
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...hanging in front of a green screen." Dede Gardner, who produced Jesse James through Pitt's company, Plan B, sees the western as therapeutically anachronistic and human-friendly: "We're besieged by technology, iPhone this and robot that. We're figuring out how to exist without even talking to one another. Well, you can't do that in [westerns]. It's all about person-to-person confrontation...
Furthermore, from a public policy standpoint, encompassing both international and domestic concerns, little separates the major Democratic candidates. This is especially true with respect to health care reform and Iraq. The few stated differences that do exist are rendered inconsequential by the question of whether or not the proposed policies are even politically feasible. Any notion of meaningful policy differences between the major candidates residing in voters’ minds are attributable to their prejudices against one or another candidate and politicians’ skills in making small or nonexistent distinctions appear important...
...that we are a nation at war. With a volunteer army, few sacrifices being asked of the average American, and the controversy surrounding the conflict, the ethos of “everyone doing their part” that has been a part of past American wars simply does not exist. It does not register that someone our age may have just perished. For all our devotion to the values of academia, we hardly study the war in Iraq and its ramifications. Finally some in the ivory tower are starting to take notice. At a roundtable discussion during its annual meeting...
...suggest that The Crimson Staff fill the allegedly gaping hole in Harvard’s course offerings with some of the classes that already exist. War is studied at Harvard from so many different angles that the real challenge is deciding which to pursue, not finding courses in the first place...
DINOSAUR EMPIRE In the Mesozoic era, about 250 million years ago, dinosaurs started to be the dominant land animals. Scientists say they might exist today if not for the meteorite that wiped them...