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...Stewart a sneaky hyena, Flight of the Conchords are tiny fawns. Their whimsical acoustic-guitar songs and gentle banter totter out on spindly legs to nibble at funny bones. The duo, who claim to be the "fourth most popular folk parodists in New Zealand," sing about the usual stuff--mistaken identity, killer robots, racist dragons--but with an earnest, blinking naiveté. It's a hemisphere away from the witty social commentary that reigns on America's comedy circuit. "I guess we're kind of nerdy hipsters," says Bret McKenzie (except he pronounces it "nurdy hupstas"). Jemaine Clement, on the other...
...messages back to the admissions office. Fortunately for the College, it was obvious then that the Harvard admissions office was not at fault. Other than a few extra telephone calls, the error caused little distress. Other schools have committed more serious e-mail errors, in some cases sending mistaken letters of acceptance to students whom they had no intention of letting in. Most of the schools have simply admitted to their mistakes, apologized for the grievances they might have caused, and rescinded the incorrect messages of acceptance or rejection. For instance, in 2004 the University of California-Davis sent acceptance...
...look back, far into history, there is evidence of people having this tendency [to trumpet the good old days] for generations and generations and generations," says Lisa Libby, a psychology professor at Ohio State University and co-author of a 2003 study titled "When Change in the Self Is Mistaken for Change in the World." "So if it were true that there was all this decline in each successive generation, we'd have nothing left at this point. So clearly some of it has to be illusory...
...biggest challenge now is the amount of reading - not only of new material, but rereading documents and decisions taken by the Congregation. how do you respond to the spread of violence in the name of another world religion, Islam? If a religious leader is preaching violence, he has mistaken his religion. Religion is about our vision and worship of God, and recognition that we are part of God's family. Violence cannot be a religious tenant. The Holy Father made an important declaration to Muslim leaders, that we need to hear them telling their people that God does not sanction...
...this past weekend, the French police have evicted Sorbonne students trying to revive the uprising, this time in response to a bill from the conservative government attempting to relax labor laws for young employees. Despite the remnants of Romanticism rooted in our young souls, the struggle of 2006 is mistaken in means and ends, just like the 1968 turned out to be. Last month, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin managed to create a First Employment Contract, which liberalizes employment for young adults up to 26 years old. The law only affects small companies, but promises a type of contract...