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Boston College has started its season with a perfect 6-0 record, and its defense is proving to be nearly impenetrable. It is one of only five teams in the nation to have not allowed a single goal, and among those five has the highest number of goals scored with...
Despite its traditional colors, Harvard is apparently one of the greenest schools in the nation, according to the Princeton Review’s “2010 Green Rating Honor Roll” published this past July. Along with 14 other schools, Harvard received the top score of 99 according to green-rating criteria developed by the Princeton Review and ecoAmerica, a non-profit environmental organization. That recognition has drawn much deserved attention to the abundance of green initiatives taking off at the university...
...director delivered a stirring speech appealing to the audience's sense of patriotism. "Your nation needs you," he said. "It needs your ingenuity, it needs your wisdom, it needs the skills of your communities to help protect the way of life that all of us hold dear." Faced with multiple challenges in the Middle East, Panetta said, the agency desperately needs people who speak Arabic and understand the culture. Besides, they would help bring much needed diversity to the CIA. "We have to reflect the face of this nation," he said...
...Some days "they" are the network of leftist community organizers known as ACORN - and his indictment of the group is looking stronger every day. But he also spins yarns of less substance. He tells his viewers that Obama's volunteerism efforts are really an attempt to create a "civilian national-security force that is just as strong, just as powerful as the military." While scourging Obama and the Democratic Congress, Beck takes pains to say that the ranks of the nation's would-be oppressors know no party. In his recent instabook - Glenn Beck's Common Sense, a huge best...
...Chayefsky imagines cynical television executives who create a ratings sensation out of the nightly rants and ravings of Beale. The host energizes the nation with his cry, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" It's hard to find a film that better captures the rotten vibe of the early 1970s, when America found itself suffering through one downer after another: failing companies, tense foreign relations, high unemployment, rampant incivility, spiraling deficits, corruption in high places, a seemingly endless war. Sound familiar...