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...must overhaul the system by which students are, and more often, are not, given academic advice by faculty,” Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby wrote in the “mission statement” for Harvard’s ongoing curricular review...
...best organ in the world can strike a sour note if the sermon that follows it waters down the essence of Christianity"--there are probably five like Methodist Janet McLeod, a publicist from the same state who notes, "We get our strength for living from Jesus' parables and his mission work. In the Crucifixion, we get our hope for what comes next." Graham, the Plano Baptist pastor, says, "It's like asking which wing of the airplane is more important...
...Bonnell has the swagger of a movie mogul. He bristles at the word games, preferring to call his product interactive entertainment. For the past few years, he has been aggressively racking up licenses to movie franchises, like Mission: Impossible, so that Atari can create games based on them. He seemed to have struck gold when he inked a deal--terms undisclosed but by all accounts incredibly generous--with the Wachowski brothers for Enter the Matrix, a game whose plot dovetails with that of Matrix Reloaded, going so far as to buy the company, Shiny Entertainment, that already held the Matrix...
...with some really bizarre ideas: "Attach incendiary devices to bats," which would then "retire to attics ... and start fires." Wacky plans aside, the group, using CIA operatives and U.S. mobsters, tried to kill Castro in what was known as Operation Mongoose. Califano confesses to taking no pride in this mission. But he does conclude, without explanation, that Lyndon Johnson was right when he said, "Kennedy tried to kill Castro, but Castro got Kennedy first...
...dust settles on what may only be the first phase of the battle of Fallujah, the emerging picture holds telling clues on the prospects for the U.S. mission in Iraq. Much has clearly gone badly wrong in what the U.S. military had announced would be a precise, targeted operation to capture or kill the men responsible for a grisly attack two weeks ago on four U.S. private security men. Five days of fighting between Marines and insurgents holed up in the town has left some 600 Iraqis dead, according to local hospitals. And U.S. spokesman have reported that around...