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...while I applaud Harvard’s corporate efficiency, I question its just place as a guiding principle in the care of an entire community of people rather than as a mantra taught at a better-business seminar. Trivializing student life contributes to an atmosphere of hostility and resentment between the administration and the students—especially when the administration tries to deflect attention from its economics-driven decision to ignore undergrads by pretending its hands are tied by the greed of cable companies...
...curriculum also encourages teachers to discuss such practices as transcendental meditation. He cites a 1979 New Jersey case in which teaching transcendental meditation in public schools was found to violate the First Amendment. While its attorney reviews the yoga program, the Aspen School District is striking terms like mantra and considering making the lessons optional. "Some of the parents' concerns were legitimate," concedes superintendent Tom Farrell. One thing yoga teaches is how to be flexible...
...even if he can't shame them into action, President Bush may well manage to scare them - his "if Iraq wants to avoid war" mantra was an unmistakable warning that if the UN can't stop Saddam's scofflaw pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, Washington is more than ready to do so alone. And what the European and Arab allies want more than anything else is to avoid a war whose consequences they fear will be more devastating than any threat posed by Saddam right now. It is fear of what the U.S. may do that has galvanized France...
...Tarantino has made his task all the harder because he's resolved to make Kill Bill in what he calls "the Chinese Way"?a phrase intoned with mantra-like frequency by the film's nearly 300-strong cast and crew. Digital effects are out. "That shit looks good, but it looks like a computer did it," he shrugs. "I'd rather have it look good and look like a cool '70s thing." He's tried wherever possible to replicate the devices favored by his kung fu forbears, which means using such low-tech innovations as Chinese condoms filled with fake...
...hotels are being re-branded as fashionable spas. But there are no beach parties, no raves. And don't expect any soon, since the King has taken up permanent residence in his town palace Klai Kangwon. The name means "far from worries." That has long been Hua Hin's mantra, more than ever now that royalty is back on the beach...