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...Oscar champ. Too bad you can't say the same for Zyzzyx Road, another small 2006 indie that hit the record books for another reason entirely - after a single week's showing in a quiet Dallas movie house, it became the lowest-grossing film ever released, at least since modern record-keeping began...
...charitable people, we could have ended this a long time ago.” HRC President Jeffrey Kwong ’09 said the Lincoln Day celebration was held to honor both Abraham Lincoln and Black History Month. He said Parker could be viewed as a modern-day embodiment of Lincoln because she “really looks at the dignity within each person.” President of the Harvard College Democrats Brigit M. Helgen ’08 cited a 2005 column in which Parker said Democrats who opposed President Bush’s Social Security plan...
...tiny speck of paint.” The paint is almost impossible to see; as Khandekar points out, it is smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.These specks drew world-wide attention on Jan. 29 of this year, when Khandekar, Fogg Associate Curator of Modern Art Harry Cooper, and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Christina B. Rosenberger of Havard’s Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art released a report declaring that some of the samples contain pigments that had not been used as artists’ paint until 1996.Khandakar’s samples...
...work within the strictures of science, which holds that the Earth is millions of years old, during the day, yet privately ascribe to a belief that holds that the Earth is at most 10,000 years old, it is a paradigm that has seemed to work in the modern University: As long as the science that the creationist produces is sound, his views are irrelevant. But in the current scientific-political climate, controversy has reared its ugly head. Though URI awarded Ross a Ph.D., some scientists have questioned whether universities should award students who hold similar beliefs advanced science degrees...
...This moral flexibility is most evident when it comes to modern marriage. Like so many seemingly fixed or imposed beliefs, hejab can be tinkered with for the sake of an attractive marriage proposal. In the Iran of today, where marrying "up" to improve one's social or financial standing is more imperative than in a Jane Austen novel, women commonly adjust their head covering to match their prospective partner's degree of religiosity...