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...most of the sprawling 22-song album it feels like the difficulty of painting a sympathetic portrait of a woman who wants herself referred to as “Love” on her gravestone has been brushed over. But there are exceptions, moments in which Byrne chooses to face Marcos’s dark side: “Order 1081,” for example, describes the declaration of martial law enacted by her husband in 1972. Here Marcos’s character sings “Got to stop all this confusion / Got to wipe away the scar...
...extreme instance of this made headlines, including Sunday’s New York Times article on the end-of-life issues surrounding the personal struggle involved in a patient’s fight to continue living in the face of severe illness. Patients with the opposite temperament—those who no longer want to fight and end their lives—have also garnered national media attention. Here it’s clearest that the community of citizens within liberal democracy becomes a house divided over the question of whether society should leave man free to destroy himself. This...
...related problem that Harvard students seeking internships sometimes face is that some unpaid opportunities require students to receive academic credit in order to comply with minimum wage laws. Mount said that Harvard does not grant academic credit for internships, though students have arranged for independent studies with faculty in the past...
Duke picked up an unstoppable rhythm early in the first quarter—win the face-off, grab the ground ball, run the set, and capitalize on shot opportunities. Harvard gave up eight of nine face-offs in the first quarter alone and won only six of 20 ground balls. The Crimson never possessed the ball long enough to push up field and run its own sets. The Blue Devils controlled the momentum from the first face...
...passion about his faith or political convictions. This has led to his second problem: among much of the Republican Party's smart set, Romney is not considered a satisfactory contender, in terms of talent, résumé or agenda, to take on Obama. And he is sure to face ferocious opposition from the right and left given his confusing opposition to the new federal health care law, which is strikingly similar to the measure he signed as Massachusetts governor (among other analogous items, the statewide plan included a requirement that individuals buy health insurance...