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...revisions, the Lower House can approve the bill with a two-thirds majority. The DPJ says that if the LDP does this, then they could slap a formal reprimand against Fukuda. And last November, when the bill to renew Japan's anti-terrorism refueling mission in the Indian Ocean became a point of contention, the DPJ also suggested a reprimand and opposition party leader Ichiro Ozawa left for a trip to China with his senior advisors in a spectacular display of disapproval. Nevertheless, the bill ended up passing three months past deadline...
...could say he was the prime developer of the movie crime caper, and leave it at that. His 1955 Rififi, with its wordless, minutely-detailed, half-hour jewel robbery, and the 1964 Topkapi, with an even more elaborate heist, inspired dozens of imitations, in films from The Killing, Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job to The Usual Suspects, Mission: Impossible 2 and that mini-masterpiece of stop-motion animation, Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers. If some star is hanging from a rope over riches protected by a sophisticated alarm system, there's no one but Dassin to thank...
...statement. “We may not agree with everything in it, but we take it as good fun.” As for the Lampoon’s next target? “The identity of the next parody is kept in a lockbox under the ocean,” Schleicher said. —Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu...
...community is deliberately built upon the intersection of diverse cultures, social practices, and worldviews. Each of us is a minority of one, bringing a unique set of legacies, customs, traditions, and beliefs. Our environment affords us the opportunity to gain knowledge and to experience the proverbial ocean beyond the pond through meaningful interactions with each other. It is these interactions that serve to give nuance to our understanding of the world and allow us to appreciate the points of view of others, albeit not necessarily agree with them. To glean the most from this invaluable opportunity, we must be willing...
...compares his transition back to Harvard to being in a kiddie pool after swimming in an ocean...