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...films "Not Without My Daughter", "The Last Temptation of Christ" and "Jungle Fever" will be among those that Miles will discuss in the book she is completing during her sabbatical. Miles said the book on the cinematic treatment of Islam, Judaism and Christianity evolved from her course Religion 1532, "Religion and Values in Contemporary American Film...
...individual case histories, of death's major causes, from accidents to Alzheimer's to AIDS. One of Nuland's case histories involves a drug addict and AIDS victim he calls Ishmael Garcia. With chilling clarity, the author describes Garcia's gradual and painful "descent into the valley of fever and incoherence" via pneumonia, meningitis and lymphoma of the brain. As he lay dying, Garcia was taking 14 experimental medications, none of which slowed what Nuland calls "a jet- propelled pestilence." Death certificates require that attending doctors state a cause; Nuland points out that for most of the elderly the villain...
...problem with the Shops by Harvard Yard is that they're too trendy and too expensive for average students--who make up an important component of the local economy. In this way, Shops are symptomatic of the upscale fever that is infecting Harvard Square. Furthermore, many of the Shops sell frivolous and strange merchandise--like handmade southwestern-style headbands and weird psychedelic quilts--that would be undesirable at any price. Where once we had discount bookstores, now we have Keely's Kites and Life's a Grind, a now defunct kiosk that sold salt and pepper grinders...
...disturbing truth is that although three decades of lock-'em-up fever have made America the world's No. 1 jailer, there still aren't nearly enough cells to go around. The '80s zeal for harsh drug penalties has pushed the U.S. incarceration rate to 455 per 100,000 citizens and has run up an unprecedented annual tab of $21 billion for the construction of prisons and maintenance of inmates. As the nation's inmate population swells toward 1.4 million, prison officials must release career criminals to make room for first-time drug offenders. The growing public outcry against violent...
That collegiate imp of the perverse, that smirking, deceitful trickster the Prank has emerged numerous times in the past year. Apparently, Harvard has caught prank fever, and no one is eating their chicken soup...