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...Alamo is directed by John Lee Hancock, who’s previously worked as a writer and producer for other Disney spectacles such as The Rookie. The movie is rated PG-13, but Hancock’s often gruesome battle scenes give The Alamo a modicum of R-rated grit. The film was originally devised with an R rating, with Academy award-winning Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) as director. However, due to Disney’s budget constraints, Howard could not make the bloodier film he wanted, so he told Disney to offer it to Hancock, who promised...
...despite the modicum of success he’d enjoyed, the novelty of switch-pitching wasn’t attractive enough to keep Brunnig from neglecting his newly-learned dexterity...
...chances to gain UM membership for two years. And the UM’s shifting reasons for denying the ACOI membership have confused and disillusioned Father Woodruff. For an organization founded to promote a diversity of religions on campus, the UM has not shown even a modicum of eagerness to incorporate new members. Quite the opposite. The UM’s tactics almost smack of intentional neglect, although it not clear that there is any agenda behind the UM’s pattern of avoidance...
...Noam Chomsky, on both the Religion 1528 and 1529 syllabi, who will (shockingly) not be speaking about linguistics, in which he holds his PhD. Palmer also selected Howard D. Zinn as a lecturer, whose People’s History of the United States takes great care to omit any modicum of praise for Western civilization, when one might choose from the wealth of legit Harvard historians. The list really goes on and on: Robert Reich, Swanee Hunt, Peter Singer and many other more marginal leftists find their way onto the syllabus. Last year, even Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys...
...cases both ways, it is time for Harvard to conduct a reality check on the way it deals with sexual assault. Zealotry in prosecuting rape is certainly justifiable, but it should limit itself to one central demand: the University should not offer any modicum of impunity to convicted rapists and sexual offenders. On the other hand, the adherence to a set of University rules in the face of legal exoneration doesn’t do much to punish rapists and does even less to enhance the credibility of an already dubious school discipline system...