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...role of the overbearing underdog, the big galoot who's somehow likable. But it's Heder, the geek from Napoleon Dynamite, who's the more appealing presence, and his character who has the cleverer backstory. We learn that as a child Jimmy was adopted by a rich man (William Fichter) bent on breeding champion skaters. "When I was nine," Jimmy says, "my dad insisted I be circumcised to minimize wind resistance." In his early maturity he has soft curls and a winsome grace; Chazz sneers that he looks "like a 15-year-old girl, but not hot.") When Jimmy...
...citizens as a whole need to look much closer at Saudia Arabia and its ties to terrorism. Iraq was/is a scapegoat in the war on terror. Saudi Arabia and its citizenry's deep pockets are a much bigger threat to U.S. security than any other Middle East country. Todd Fichter San Antonio, Texas...
...about $2,500 a month, works a 35-hour week and has six weeks of annual vacation. But economists say the union's bargaining strength is leading to its long-term weakness as well. "IG Metall has established Germany as a high-wage, high-quality production center," said Michael Fichter, executive director of the Center for Labor Relations at the Free University of Berlin. "It is less able to deal with the segment of the market that doesn't fit that. The fact that companies are transferring jobs to other countries is an omen." Though membership soared after German reunification...
Saturday, at MIT, in the Laser Radial competition, three Harvard sailors finished in the top five: senior Jen Dewey came in first, freshman Julie Coldwell took third and freshman Lian Fichter rounded out the top spots...
Although the U.S. bishops appear to play down the Anglican-Use arrangement for fear of fraying ecumenical ties with the Episcopalians, this is, in Fichter's view, a "liberal" step that amounts to a Vatican "admission that + the beliefs and practices of traditional Anglicanism have been basically the beliefs and practices of the Roman Church." Fichter considers the Anglican- Use parishes a far more important innovation than married clergy. This development, he contends, "may be called the first significant ecumenical breakthrough in the relations between Anglicans and Romans...