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...major factor in lowering levels of violence across Iraq. The Americans appear eager to restore the truce, which has essentially broken down as U.S. troops back Iraqi forces fighting militiamen in Sadr City. But Sadr, whose bloc of political loyalists long ago boycotted the Iraqi government, sounded a note of defiance that seemed to slam the door on hopes of peaceful resolution...
...rate, a trial-tested formula seems to have been proven once again—thanks a million, Scream. For now, only an advisory note: actually learning to count cards will prove far more rewarding than indulging Hollywood’s proclivity to value audiences over authenticity, and ticket sales over true-to-life adaptations...
...last weekend with a student art show in the Adams Art Space. Each piece of visual art was paired with a well known poem that was posted on the wall next to it. Sifuentes uses the visual art to make poetry less foreign and more accessible to students. He notes that the artwork was meant to provide a window into the message and style of the poetry accompanying it, not to depict the poem. “Sometimes people are reticent around poetry,” he says. “We are more visually literate. The artwork is meant...
...regardless of grade. This change should help students find models for senior theses as they enter the daunting process, and more generally, should help facilitate research on campus—maybe even professors will learn a thing or two from students’ work. On a lighter but important note, the Free Thesis Project may help students late at night in early spring when they are ready to destroy their computers and quit their theses: “Will anyone except my two graders read this thing!?!” is a reasonable question on students’ minds. With...
...NOTE: The junta that runs the country imposed a systematic name change several years ago, decreeing that Burma was to be called Myanmar and the capital Rangoon was to be Yangon. The opposition has never accepted these changes; neither has the U.S. government. TIME continues to use Burma and Rangoon...