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...spectrum from Cornel R. West '74 to former Sen. Alan K. Simpson--and several resolutions passed by the Cambridge City Council has President Neil L. Rudenstine failed to commit to a living wage? Why do Rudenstine and company seem to believe that the question of the living wage will fade away if only they wait long enough? The minimal cost of implementation--only one-half of one percent of the interest on the endowment--cannot explain administrators' intractable stance. Perhaps Rudenstine and the labyrinthine Harvard management apparatus prefer that all decisions, even those that define the character of the Harvard...
...followers, mainstream churches question the depth of faith in the converted, as well as the commitment of the new churches to their flock. Like the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments sect, many of the new churches are built around charismatic and exploitative leaders and often fade once those leaders leave...
...which good and evil are allowed to mingle. Think of all the seedy detectives and flawed spies. Romances must end happily; the spirited heroine must bring the male of her choice to heel--"civilize" or "tame" him, as romance authors like to put it--before the final clinch and fade-out. Defenders often point out that mysteries must also conclude in a predetermined manner: the crime is solved, the suspect unmasked. But that analogy won't wash, since the identity of the guilty party in mysteries is withheld until the end. Romance heroines and readers rarely doubt which...
Carnival 2000, by Britpop group Prefab Sprout, was the music I chose for my sound track. It clocks in at less than 4 min.--short enough, I thought, for me to go mad with tons of MTV-style quick cuts spliced together with the professional-looking transitions (such as fade-in and cross-dissolve) that iMovie provides...
...strategy shift would seem to be a prelude for a graceful fade-out from the presidential picture. "All of Bradley's body language seems to indicate that he realizes that the race is over," says TIME political correspondent Karen Tumulty. "So now he's trying to frame what his legacy is. By making his last images as someone who's run a clean campaign, he's trying to be remembered for how he affected the nature of campaigning. It's also not entirely out of the question that he's trying to position himself for a place on a Gore...