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...important to note that the aim of the Task Force’s proposal is not a forced integration of extracurricular and academic pursuits. Instead, it seeks to give students the opportunity to link the two if they choose. According to Kemper Professor of American History James T. Kloppenburg, “The goal is to give students more flexibility to plan their own undergraduate programs, experiment with various alternatives, and make changes. Locking students into a rigid curriculum ...is now seen as a problem rather than a goal...
...senior staff in a campaign essentially to tar Joe Wilson as a wimp. And in that is the sobering message beyond the Libby trial's legal minutiae: The same wise men who were assessing a phantom threat to America's domestic peace were the same people taking minute note of their own PR. Perhaps the larger moral here is that had Washington torn itself away from the petty melodramas such as who dissed whom on Hardball - or in the pages of TIME - perhaps there would have been more scrutiny of the intelligence that led the nation into Iraq...
...Business School, deeming his visit a “homecoming.” “I had a theory that if you raised your hand, they would never call on you,” Bloomberg said of his time at Harvard. Bloomberg ended his speech on a welcoming note. To “anybody who wants to become a taxpayer or citizen,” New York would “love to have you,” he said...
...bank window in one of the film’s opening scenes to vent his financial frustrations. Still, Thornton, best known in recent years for his sleazy roles in “Bad Santa” and “Bad News Bears” — note the repetition of “bad” — is not believable as an earnest former astronaut who was forced to give up his desire to travel into space after his father’s untimely death...
...Coulter is heterosexual, so I suppose I should condemn her as well. But note that she was using the word "faggot" with virtual quote marks around it. Surely all of us are allowed to do that - just the way I used the N word in quote marks above. She didn't say "John Edwards is a faggot." She would never say that - not because she respects the rights of gays to full equality before the law (she doesn't) - but because it wouldn't be funny. Coulter wants to make people laugh more than anything; she is, as I have...