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...True to their advanced age and ideological inclination, the Academy's geriatric Lefties chose as the five nominees for Best Picture films set totally or mostly in the past, when moral lessons could shine with pristine clarity. The members wanted to look back in a kind of rancorous nostalgia - to dedicate this year's selection to the preservation of a political and artistic status quo from the dear dead days of the '50s, '60s and '70s, back when the members were barely pushing...
...challenge of global warming, but instead resolve to meet it and put the world on path to a sustainable future." Wise words - though easier to say once out of office - and a reminder that the final fate of renewables will be decided not by economic capital, but the political kind...
...date of what people are calling the great digital switchover--or sometimes, kind of poetically, the "analog sunset." On that date, all full-power TV stations will be required to stop broadcasting analog TV signals and transmit only digital ones. Most people won't be affected: you can pick up digital TV using a regular old antenna--you just need to make sure your TV has a digital tuner in it, which all new and newish TVs have. After March 1, 2007, manufacturers were pretty much required to put a digital tuner in every TV they made. If you have...
Chelsea Connolly ’10 said that in general, she thinks that sharing study resources “shows very good cooperation between students” and “kind of bucks the cliche that Harvard is so competitive...
...Obama-inspired and Obama-led citizen involvement. During the transition, the Obama website called for supporters to hold community meetings to discuss their health-care priorities. A staggering 10,000 meetings purportedly were held; 5,000 sent written reports - more paper! - to the transition office. This is a new kind of politics, with the potential to be the most powerful citizen army in U.S. history. If so, it will more likely be a force for civility - for "boring" things like good governance, for new ideas about how to control the cost of entitlements (which Obama pointedly mentioned in his speech...