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Assistant Dean of the College Jay Ellison wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson Saturday that “the situation [in Lebanon] is very uncertain and we believe that it is best if students leave the country in as quick and safe a manner as possible...
...acting"? Maybe that does slightly exaggerate what he has so far accomplished on screen. But wth his flat little voice and his earnest manner, he's generally been a very welcome presence in the movies. He was especially good as Jackie Chan's co-star in Shanghai Noon and Knights , and he was excellent in The Wedding Crashers last year, where he energetically overcame his basic inertia, in part because the script was well developed nonsense and his constantly scheming co-star, Vince Vaughn, wouldn't let him lie down for long...
...reporting stated that "Few modern Americans ... are shocked to hear how vital Indians have been to California's high-tech industry." With regard to outsourcing, you quoted an Indian executive's observation that "the jobs will go to those who can do them best, in the most cost-effective manner. Geography is irrelevant." So American workers are losing jobs to insourcing as well as outsourcing! We can't get a break. JOSEPH MICHAEL SIMASEK Morganton...
...up” tale is a staple of college newspapers. Its formulaic version involves some small event convincing the narrator of his or her newfound maturity, thus spawning an epiphany: he or she belongs in the Real World. Having read a fair number of such pieces and, in highbrow manner, dismissed virtually all of them as hopelessly cliché, it was with reluctance, and even embarrassment, that over the past week, I realized I was living through...
...made house-calls in Northern North Dakota on a dogsled and carried with him a small black leather bag. Inside, Emmott kept various combinations of useless herbal remedies and semi-potent painkillers—not a single drug capable of prolonging someone’s life. His cooing bedside manner was the only weapon against his patients’ ailments.This was a century ago. Today’s hospitals, on the other hand, boast prescription prowess, the hallmark of modern medicine. Hundreds of drugs comprise an impressive pharmaceutical arsenal available to the modern doctor. If you’re lucky...