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With its lofty price tag and even loftier reputation, Harvard is certainly a fountain of all things exclusive. But this tendency can be at odds with the current movement for a more open higher education...
...Today's pirates pursue their prey with outboard motors instead of oars and tote rocket-propelled grenades instead of cutlasses. With upgraded equipment and loftier stakes - the group demanded $20 million in ransom for the Faina's return, a figure that reportedly plunged to $5 million on Oct. 1 - these 21st century buccaneers, like their peg-legged predecessors, are economic opportunists exploiting the largely unpatrolled waterways through which 90% of global trade flows...
...According to two sources close to the College administration, who spoke on the condition of anonymity last week, Dean of FAS Michael D. Smith has been hard at work on plans to shuffle much of the College administration out of University Hall and into loftier perches—aloof from the undergraduates they ostensibly serve—in the Holyoke Centre...
...probably wasn't thinking of the elite group of recipients of France's Legion of Honor. But a comedian as sharp and profound as Marx would, no doubt, not welcome induction into club whose ranks have begun to swell with people nominated purely for their celebrity rather than any loftier merits. That list grew further, Thursday, when President Nicolas Sarkozy conferred the title on Canadian singer Céline Dion, welcoming her into the company of Alexis de Tocqueville, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gustave Flaubert, Alexander Graham Bell and Albert Dreyfus - and also Jerry Lewis. Not surprisingly, some observers suggest that...
...tells her husband Harry (Chris Cooper, “American Beauty”) that “love is sex.” Pat and Harry are a middle-aged couple in a rut living in the 1940s. Unlike his wife, Harry is a sentimentalist who has loftier notions of love. He tells his best friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan, “Die Another Day”), “I always dreamed of a woman being truly in love with me.” This difference of opinion, which could have been wonderfully humorous, develops into a mundane debate...