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First-years should be ready for their House assignments and should sign up for their House open lists, but they should not be fooled into believing that the lists will fulfill their desire for debate on weighty matters. Instead, these lists will provide most students with mild entertainment when they have the time to peruse the posts (possibly in digest form). For a select few first-years, House lists will become a forum for their own witty remarks and ruminations. But to debate serious issues, and to create true House community, students will have to venture out of their dorm...
George W. Bush abandoned his studied air of mild sedation only once during his prime-time press conference last week. His eyes lighted up when he was asked if he would call for another U.N. vote on Iraq. A poker metaphor escaped from his Inner Cowboy. "It's time for people to show their cards," he said, as if he actually enjoyed the prospect of a confrontation with France, Russia and the others. The tactic was unexpected; the belligerence, revealing. The President is ticked off, but he is confident, and he is calling France's bluff. Win or lose...
...principals give remarkable performances. Cassel in particular is excellent in his walking portrayal of masculine vengefulness. In the later scenes, he provides an interesting foil to Dupontel’s mild-mannered, sensitive Pierre, and Bellucci’s natural calm. Irreversible is certainly not a “character” movie, but it relies heavily on the looming generalizations it makes about its free-floating inhabitants, and about the agression inherent in male environments...
George W. Bush abandoned his studied air of mild sedation only once during his prime-time press conference last week. His eyes lighted up when he was asked if he would call for another U.N. vote on Iraq. A poker metaphor escaped from his Inner Cowboy. "It's time for people to show their cards," he said, as if he actually enjoyed the prospect of a confrontation with France, Russia and the others. The tactic was unexpected; the belligerence, revealing. The President is ticked off, but he is confident, and he is calling France's bluff. Win or lose...
...Rogers. It is true that Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which lives on in reruns, was an island of tranquillity in a children's mediasphere of robots and antic sponges. And in real life, Fred Rogers, who died last week of stomach cancer at age 74, was evidently as sweet and mild mannered as the kindly neighbor he played on TV. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he didn't smoke, drink or eat meat, prayed every day and went to bed by 9:30 each night. To cynics and parodists, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was a namby-pamby zone of pint-size feel-goodism...