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...with a razor-thin majority in the Senate, backed by disparate allies who didn't trust each other; most of them possessed enough votes to trigger a collapse. But the fate of the coalition and the career of the former European Commission President is largely beside the point. Fifteen years after the dismantling of a corrupt ruling class was supposed to have paved the way for reform of public life, Italy's entire political system is broken. Rather than sleaze, it is now mired in sludge, unable to break a vicious circle of stall and cynicism...
...Burton takes a purchase on our more elevated emotions by showing the source of Sweeney's rage. Fifteen years earlier he was a sweet young man, named Benjamin Barker. His beloved wife and young daughter were ripped from him by the evil Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), who exiled him to Australia. So Sweeney is a romantic tragic figure; he has fallen from a great height -off the cloud of his belief that love can last forever. Now he knows better, and throws himself into this amorality play. It's man devouring man, vengeance destroying ideals...
...long arms and athleticism allowed him to keep the center of the zone clogged, enabling his teammates to extend the zone and stifle Vermont’s previously unhindered scoring machine, allowing only three points during a seven minute span in which the Crimson scored 24, turning a fifteen point halftime deficit into a four point lead...
...where you’d atone for sins by being environmentally friendly. I picture his pupils getting all dilated while he wrote that one. But he went even further off the deep end on Dec. 5, when his entire column was an imagined communiqué within the Iranian government. Fifteen whole paragraphs written “in character.” When was the last time a Times column ended with “God is Great. Long Live the Iranian Revolution”? (1) Goodbye, globalization The shocker. Back in my day, Friedman’s schtick was ranting...
...thought maybe you found out I use a fork to eat my yogurt” said Bong-Ihn Koh ’08, when asked about why he thinks he was chosen as one of the Fifteen Most Interesting Seniors. Well, yes, but that wasn’t the primary reason. At the unusually young age of 12, Koh, an extraordinarily gifted cellist, won the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, which he considers the musical world’s affirmation that he was ready to perform and influence people with his music. Koh took that charge seriously...