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...kiss-kiss world of diplomacy, political beasts Downer and Rudd often rumble in their very own hyperbolic chamber. While the prevailing contest is about Australia's participation in Saddam Hussein's corruption of the humanitarian aid program to Iraq, it would be wrong to see Downer vs. Rudd as mere rhetorical overkill...
...Though it may not be all that shocking to hear that employers are reluctant to hire people who?ve served time, there's a lesser-known side of the tragedy: it turns out that the mere existence of those black men who?ve gone to prison can also ruin the job prospects of black men without criminal records, according to several studies conducted by Georgetown University economist Harry Holzer and several colleagues...
...hours of the day and night. The dining hall is a place in which somewhat stale bagels are the fare du jour, procrastination thrives, and papers eventually get written (though it might not often happen until the HUDS staff starts prepping breakfast). Strong community is built by the mere existence of a central location through which housemates’ paths constantly cross. 2. Befriend the people around you. Students are at the epicenter of the House community, but they are not its only shapers. Your House masters have the potential to be a pair of surrogate parents; resident tutors give...
...play and help the team.”Spending the majority of his time harassing the other team’s skaters, Murphy saw a significant drop-off in his offensive production. As a freshman, he scored three goals and added five assists. The following year, he tallied a mere three points.But the power forward kept skating hard and finishing hits, never complaining.“That’s what a team is,” Murphy says. “You have to have certain guys play certain roles.”Murphy’s renaissance came...
...senseless terror directed at shifting categories such as “anti-Aryan,” “kulak,” or “counter-revolutionary” elements. Never do we see the government in “V for Vendetaa” kill people merely to show it can, merely to spread fear: the glue which holds a dictatorship in place. Even the number of people that the government oppresses during the movie are, in a certain historical sense, quaint. The high chancellor’s government killed almost one hundred thousand people? Amateurs! Even...