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...financial aid and tax exemptions, but it also arrogates to itself the right to interfere with the policies of the Italian government. Every day the Pope or some Cardinal appears on the TV news, and politicians queue to kneel before the Pope, thereby humiliating the state. If only some latter-day Henry VIII would appear on the scene and expel the Vatican. Alessandro Berrini Milan Exit Strategy The average American is simply sick of the U.S.'s spending our money and our young people's lives for political ideals [Dec. 5]. What would Americans do if Saddam Hussein...
...some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more.Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: Imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless...
...Steve Sandvoss” yields an eyeful of sexually-charged photos, featuring the actor bathing, shirtless, or with his pants undone. A number of gay webmasters have established digital shrines to the 25-year-old actor since his 2004 breakout role in the indie film “Latter Days,” in which he played a Mormon missionary who has a passionate—and explicit—affair with a Hollywood party boy. But the heterosexual Sandvoss describes his beefcake-photo Google hits as a relic from some early-career modeling work. However, he admits that...
...always used the former, because it is short and fierce; copy editors routinely changed it to the latter as more grammatically correct. Terrorism is a tactic wrapped in ideology; terror is an experience, and you can't declare war on one of those. But only now as I listened to the President answer questions did I realize how important a distinction this is, and how success or failure lies in the meaning of those words, and the difference in those wars...
...schemes, in which Annenberg and one dining hall in each of four upperclass neighborhoods—one in the Quad and three on the River—will have extended dinner hours. The third plan extends dinner one hour in Annenberg and all House dining halls. Although the latter plan is the most expensive, the extra cost is a necessary evil in order to finally institute a reform that students have both clamored for and needed for many years. The proposals were formed after months of talks between HUDS officials and members of a Committee on House Life subcommittee, which...