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...bones about it: I am a Potter man, through and through. Perhaps the majority of the disgruntled, middle-aged baldies who comprise the homogenous world of film criticism and can’t tell a horcrux from a hippogriff, can give you a review based more on cinematic merit than adoration. But for those who treasure this series like I do, I can say with confidence that “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” is easily the most satisfying Harry Potter film thus far.This is not to say that newcomers to Hogwarts Academy of Witchcraft...
Last week’s episode of “The OC” opened with a (gasp) metaphor. Has the show achieved literary merit? Mmm, sort of. Marissa Cooper recounted—via nightmare—her shooting of Trey, Ryan’s brother, in last spring’s season finale. The vision represents ardent attempts by the show’s writers to remember a time when the show was at its sleazy best. And with last week’s episode, they succeeded! Sort of. Ryan and Marissa had some more relationship troubles...
That said, this Mather House senior has a merit badge most of us don’t. Jones was one of 24 juniors inducted into the Harvard chapter of the national collegiate honors society, Phi Beta Kappa, last spring. Quite a twist, if you consider her humble beginnings here at Harvard...
Last spring, Harvard and Stanford were chasing the same girl. Anna K. Kendrick, a Boston resident and graduate of the Winsor School, had scored acceptance letters from both coasts. A national crew champion and National Merit Finalist, Kendrick had made her case—now it was the colleges’ turn to make theirs...
...that they risked death and, in some cases, killed for an unjustified cause. The Iraq war veterans who have spoken out against Bush deserve credit for doing something that is incredibly difficult. But even if every veteran supported the Iraq war, that would not be compelling evidence of its merit. We cannot rely only on the opinions of veterans alone when we judge the value of our military policies...