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...activity, a young man reporting an approach by a terrorist recruiter—are more often the key to cracking a secretive terrorist conspiracy. By discouraging cooperation from people who don’t want anything to do with such abuse, coercive interrogation may be penny wise but pound foolish...
...under the guidance of someone who can ensure the smooth administration of the overall course and its vision. Such a system would have the additional benefit of increasing faculty-student interaction by freeing up professors to teach smaller courses in which they have true interest. It would be foolish to expect the best faculty-student interaction in large lecture courses like the Courses in General Education.This plan, however, has one large stumbling block: with a few exceptions for administrators who teach on the side, Harvard’s current policy limits lecturers in non-tenure-track positions to only eight...
...seem foolish, or patronizing, of me. But people conduct this kind of internal dialogue all the time; it?s practically unavoidable in our multi-ethnic, politically correct society, where stereotypes and reality collide more often than people would like to think, or admit. While I want to believe that my motivation is benevolent, I recognize the irony of trying to offset racial profiling by engaging in what amounts to just another form...
...occurs to you that the idea is mad, you aren't the first. "I thought it was foolish," said director Matthew Warchus. He believed it would be "instantly plausible" to do the Ring as a spoof. "It's such an earnest story, and people are so protective of it." Still, he signed on. Then he and musical supervisor Christopher Nightingale chose to break with the Broadway songwriting style and go for an ethereal, world-music sound. Two sounds, in fact: one from A.R. Rahman, the best-selling composer of Indian musical films; the other from the Finnish group Vrttin?...
It’s something “The Playboy”’s producers recognize. “I think we’d be naive or foolish to say, ‘It’s Irish,’ and expect half a million people to come,” Executive Producer Zoe M. Savitsky ’07 says. What they aren’t trying to do, according to director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, is condescend. “The way we plan on talking to people...