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Ultimately the Porters decided to go with the least expensive option, commissioning the placement of two rows of brass bars in front of each shelf of books, using already existing holes in the bookcase, she said...
This whole vampires-vs.-zombies debate - about which monster is more vital to the pop-culture zeitgeist - has lately escalated to nuclear proportions. Both sides have gotten shriller and more dogmatic, as if they were wrangling over a public option in health-care reform or whether it's O.K. to tweet during sex. As someone who's amped up the decibel level on the creature-features subject (see my review of Thirst), I now believe the warring parties need to find some small patch of common ground. So can we agree on just one thing? A vampire movie (or novel...
...Crimson’s only designated copy editor, I came back to school to face the issue that had been confronting most editors all summer: my personal philosophy on health care. As liberals and conservatives in Washington debated the public option, language experts staked out differing positions of their own. In the publishing world, however, what has separated healthcare liberals from health-care conservatives isn’t our political views—it’s our opinion on whether the hot topic itself is one word...
...intends to use the process to reinforce his legitimacy in the wake of Iran's June 12 election debacle. Indeed, Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki said on Thursday that the talks had gone so well that the next round ought to be a summit between the two Presidents - an option that would likely be politically unpalatable to the Administration in light of Iran's domestic political situation...
...Administration may have little option but to play the diplomatic game, because its "or else" options are so limited. Russia and China remain deeply skeptical of the case for sanctions and are unlikely to approve measures with significant bite. What's more, Israeli and American hawks have long argued that no sanctions will prompt a regime that has invested so much in developing a nuclear program to simply reverse course; rather, they see the choices as boiling down to one between military strikes and accepting a nuclear-armed Iran. But military strikes are opposed by the Pentagon for two reasons...