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...decided I was not willing to pay $180 for a bit of oil, no matter how good it is. Of course, I am not willing to pay $40,000 for a car either. But I now understand how a beer can be worth $100 and that a butter junkie isn't a reprobate for dropping $50 on a fix. And if you're somehow rich enough, there may be times when kicking back and enjoying an insanely expensive vinegar makes sense...
Senator Barack Obama has previously told us that words matter, and the venomous, vitriolic and racially divisive words of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright are fraught with meaning of the most disturbing kind [March 31]. As your story observed, Obama failed to answer the central question that troubled American voters are asking: Why would Obama choose Wright to be his spiritual guide and personal mentor? And if Obama's candidacy is about the future, why would he expose his young daughters to such poisonous rhetoric of the past? Although he delivered his speech with his usual grace and eloquence...
...possibility that a black hole eats up the earth is too serious a threat to leave it as a matter of argument among crackpots.' MICHELANGELO MANGANO, theorist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in response to a U.S. lawsuit charging that CERN's new particle accelerator could endanger the planet...
...remain cautious. Says Gregg Kirchhoefer, a partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis: "We don't do, haven't done and don't plan on doing this. The name of the game for us is quality." Daly, the law-school dean, says an ethical breach is only a matter of time. "We haven't seen any documented problems crop up yet, but I'm sure they're there," she says. "We've certainly seen problems on the domestic side. It would be foolish to assume they're not on the global side as well." It would also be foolish...
Addressing the fate of art in an age dominated by mass media is no small feat. Neither is bringing opera to the YouTube generation, for that matter. But these are among the challenges that Charlie I. Miller ’08 takes up in his multimedia senior thesis project, “Username: Faust,” which will run Apr. 9-13 in the New College Theater Studio. An innovative hybrid of video, opera, live theater, various versions of the Faust myth, and several internet components, Miller’s thesis defies easy categorization. “I came...