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...Washington, the energy involved in acting and directing at the same time is exhausting. For both “Debaters” and “Antwone Fisher,” Washington says he had to take prominent roles in order to acquire enough money to finance the films. Nevertheless, he maintained a positive attitude about acting.“Once I knew I was going to be in the movie, I was like, ‘Just embrace it. Go with it.’ I don’t waste a lot of time on my own performance...
...Nevertheless, buoyed by the positive feedback he has found on the Internet and his relative anonymity on the Harvard campus, Baek doesn’t regret his decision. His roommate since sophomore year, Daniel E. Disario ’08, says that the recent release of his single hasn’t really changed anything for Baek and his day to day life at Harvard. “He doesn’t seem like the diva-ish pop star type and he doesn’t want anything to change...We make fun of him from time to time...
...argued in announcing the decision, “justice is, and must always be, colorblind”—an impossibility when the use of a drug associated with one community is punished much more harshly than the use of a very similar drug favored by another. Nevertheless, we retain many qualms with national drug and mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Although they stop short of addressing all of them, the Supreme Court and Sentencing Commission decisions do take a positive step by empowering judges to consider every case individually and by helping to close the gap between punishments...
People studying at community colleges often prioritize low tuition and have to balance school with work. Nevertheless, many top schools are aggressively recruiting transfer students from community colleges. But Harvard has taken a decidedly lower-key approach, making little effort to bring in students from nontraditional educational backgrounds...
Apart from the initial outburst, Fujimori, 69, dressed sharply in a pinstriped suit, alternated between looking bored, scribbling in a small notebook, and annoyed, pursuing his lips and knitting his brow. His supporters were not surprised by the results of the first trial but are nevertheless combative. "This verdict demonstrates that the president will not receive a free and fair trial. The court can do what it likes, but Peruvians will be the final jurors and they will vindicate him," said Rep. Carlos Raffo, a member of a pro-Fujimori congressional caucus. Fujimori's opponents, however, see the ex-president...