Word: gotten
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...history that is emotionally edifying and alive. Still, the connecting material by which Robert Rodat's script moves from the opening battle sequence to the last is less than wholly compelling, and the framing device of the ex-soldier in the cemetery is maudlin and cumbersome; Spielberg hasn't gotten an ending right in at least ten years. As I said, disputation seems insolent in the case of this film, but in this mediocre summer, even the best films bore compromises that were hard to ignore. Nicholas K. Davis...
Buried in the more than 650 pages of Congress' reauthorization of the Higher Education Act this week is a signal that the federal government has finally gotten tough on campus crime...
Examples of this attitude are everywhere. There were quite a few of members of the class of 2000 who had not quite gotten around to dropping their advanced standing in the "special senior section" of the seating for Nelson Mandela's speech. In fact, a lot of the student proponents for advanced standing hold it up as the perfect way of beating the system--one convenient piece of paper good for better odds in Core lotteries, improved housing assignments and a raft of other benefits only sketchily associated with its actual academic function...
...Talbot brags about the 400,000 new readers the story netted him, calls breaking news stories "free p.r.," and declared in the Post that "it was right for us to pull Henry Hyde's pants down." Forgiving Broder -- or better still, running his dissent in Salon -- would have gotten Talbot the best press he's had all week...
...that we've gotten the feel-good Freshman Week discussions on diversity out of the way, it's time to begin the school year--and the real discussions on diversity. This year, in fact, looks to be full of debate on issues of multiculturalism. Not only has a new organization, the "Multicultural Issues Forum," started up, but the Institute of Politics is centering this weekend's Fall 1998 Conference on "A Seat at the Table: Fairness in Minority Representation...