Word: friendships
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...extremely dangerous to their own members over time, as they ostracize individual members, split in two, or disintegrate all together. How can any upperclassman expect to find his or her place in a House once the group on whom he or she has relied for companionship and friendship disappears? Considering how potentially devastating the insularity of blocking groups can be, it really is a marvel that this veritable make-work project for Harvards thinly stretched counseling resources is tolerated by the College...
...First to criticize the film were nationalistically minded viewers who didn't like the fact that it shows Pandey cavorting with prostitutes, consuming the narcotic bhang, and even befriending a "Britisher"?the film is structured around a friendship between Pandey and an English officer named Gordon. The director, Ketan Mehta, has a reasonable defense: the movie begins with a disclaimer, stating that it's a hybrid of fact and fiction. Not much is known about Pandey's life, and the film invents liberally; yet there is some plausibility to its inventions. No one knows, for example, whether or not Pandey...
...mother died from the effects of a stroke she suffered at his grandfather's funeral. Mullen lost his mother in a traffic accident in 1978. "The thing that has kept us going," he says now, "is the fact that we are friends. This whole band is based on our friendship. If it had originally been based on our music, we would have failed...
...been stripped of cuteness and nostalgia. What strikes you first is that the sad songs are really sad. At the Mercy gets past the sentimental and into the startling fact that genuine love can leave you powerless and insecure. Riding to Vanity Fair, a trippy ballad about rejected friendship, is the most misanthropic thing the composer of Ob-La-Di has ever recorded. He insists it's not directed at anyone in particular, and the lyrics--"You're not aware/ Of what you put me through/ But now the feeling's gone"--don't offer up any autobiographical clues...
...presidential nominee in 2008 ... will depend largely on whether she can find a way for the U.S. to declare victory in Iraq before support for the Bush doctrine, at home and abroad, runs out." How many "victories" will it take before the Bush Administration realizes that you cannot buy friendship or bully other nations into it? Although the U.S. rebuilt Germany and freed France, those countries did not support the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. No matter how many young Americans die there, Iraq will never be a reliable friend of the U.S.'s. Ron Thomas Wollongong, Australia Rice seems...