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...more important than the buying power of that 0.667 percent stake is what it represents. Every form of mass media is built upon the written word. Yet that work goes largely unnoticed: Who outside of the business can name ten screenwriters? Who can name five...
...This game of chicken occurs even though Congress has already sent the military $460 billion for its operations in fiscal 2008, which began October 1. But funding for actual war-fighting is generally not included as part of the standard military budget. Instead, it comes from Congress in the form of supplemental funding bills. This year, President Bush is seeking $196 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Congress wants to approve a $50 billion slice of that to fund the wars through the winter, but with conditions attached - most importantly, calling for an end to U.S. combat...
...years ago. "If education... is to serve as the lever to the great surge forward of the Indian nation, the scourge of ragging which corrodes the vitals of our campuses needs to be curbed," an Indian Supreme Court committee concluded in a recent report. Ragging, it said, is "a form of psychopathic behavior and a reflection of deviant personalities...
...production of the opera. Each time, when the performance ended, I wanted it to start all over again. Such is the power, beauty and fascination of Kunqu opera, even to a Westerner. The consummate skill required of the performers transcends time and space. Like Shakespeare, Kunqu might inspire various forms of renewal. But part of the beauty of such perfect works of art lies in their integrity, which we can still feel and be moved by centuries after they were created. Coming generations should not be robbed of the incomparable experience of classical Kunqu, even as the art form evolves...
...refute his statement: the American Revolutionary War. It took years of fighting and the deprivation of American troops to defeat King George III and his minions. Negotiations could not have persuaded the English government to give up its colonies. In addition, the efforts needed to win the war helped form the American character - a character that Cruise often portrays in his successful movies. Frank Jerome, Columbus, Indiana...