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...name, but he doesn't really have the stuff to be a great villain ... he wants the prizes, but he doesn't want to pay for the tickets. And it's there, on the crux of that paradox, that the movie becomes Scorsese's metaphor for so many modern lives. ... He simply uses organized crime as an arena for a story about a man who likes material things so much that he sells his own soul to buy them...
...Welcome to the Eliot dorm room of Roger C. Batt ’10. The streamlined black and white décor is a stunning contrast to the rainbow montage of magazine cut-outs and tinted pictures in the hallway. A sense of modern simplicity pervades the atmosphere...
...lofty interest rates and other problems responsive to sharp correctives - after which unemployment rates eased in step with other recovery indicators. More recent recoveries from economic downturns, however, have tended to go forward without major gains in employment, a reflection of the fact that the underlying economic problems of modern recessions have been more complex and therefore more difficult to solve. Levy thinks the same dynamics are in play now as the economy struggles to regain its footing after being sunk by complicated issues such as capital flows and deflation of assets and debt - all of which choke off cash...
...leaving lights on in empty rooms to discarding untouched food and unused napkins. Common sense, consideration, and simple decency all argue against such activities; and indeed, those qualities could do well to serve the greater ends of not only the environmental movement but other social causes also. Unfortunately, the modern university and contemporary progressives care little for inculcating those values when they can formulate their own tendentious morals out of narrow ideologies...
...question for me becomes whether I would be a better vice president than she would.”Huchra criticized in particular Palin’s view on scientific questions, including teaching creationism in public schools, which he described as “not consistent with a modern view of the world.”THE LONELY CAUSEBoth Mansfield and Ruth R. Wisse, professor of Yiddish and comparative literature, spoke at length about the difficulties facing Republican-voting faculty at Harvard.Mansfield estimated that within the 50-person government department, there are three or four conservative professors...