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...Academy Awards, which used to be the highest-rated entertainment program of the year, could hit a new low with its Feb. 22 broadcast. Now, if Slumdog were battling The Dark Knight for Best Picture--sort of Dharma vs. Goliath--that would be a can't-miss fight...
...part of the way the government tries to channel a generation that grew up with no memory of the Shah into continued support for the revolution. "Basij is not an organization only--it's a spirit," says Mariam Saemi, 22, a student at Tehran University. "The purpose is to fight against oppression everywhere in the world. The reason we are against Zionism is that the Zionist regime oppresses people in Palestine, innocent kids and defenseless women. We will continue until we completely remove oppression...
Perhaps if Alice Park had interviewed even one opponent of embryonic research, her article would not have lacked so many important facts. Adult (nonembryonic) stem cells, dismissed by Park as "less versatile," have already treated thousands of actual human patients in the fight against conditions like juvenile diabetes--a disease mentioned anecdotally by Park. Different types of adult stem cells (there are several) can be used for different situations; we do not need a one-size-fits-all cell that can become anything. Brian Gillin, BROOMALL...
...absence of Maduka might change the Crimson’s gameplan, but it certainly won’t change its attitude going into the contest. Harvard knows that the Big Red will still come prepared for a fight. Cornell leads the league in three-pointers made as well as three-point percentage, and also has some power down low with senior Shanna Scarselletta...
...election-night orators, Lieberman appeared the most confident. His support had grown since the war, on the strength of Jewish anger at Israel's indigenous Arabs, some of whom had cheered Hamas and waved Palestinian flags during the fighting. Among other things, Lieberman had suggested that Israel should fight Hamas as "the U.S. did with the Japanese" - which some people saw as raising the remarkable specter of innocent Israeli Arabs interned in concentration camps. "Lieberman has created a classic European anti-immigrant party," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator. "Only his supporters are the immigrants, and their targets...