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...man’s trials and tribulations—as well as honors and accolades. Phoenix is fantastic, but Travolta has an airy nonchalance totally incongruous with the seriousness of some situations. Director Jay Russell creates a familial world of jovial camaraderie sweet and good-natured enough to overlook its implausibility. It may not be a movie about real fire fighters, but it is a movie about real people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

Harvard ain’t a saint, but it is no Goliath either. And its perpetually dissatisfied neighbors are no Davids. Oversimplified and unforgiving, the very us/them dichotomy lets Harvard affiliates overlook the College’s reliance on Cambridge as it allows Cantabs to neglect Harvard’s stunning community resources. We cannot afford to have bullheaded attitudes prevail at the negotiating table; community building must be a cooperative endeavor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Cheese With That Whine? | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

Harvard ain’t a saint, but it is no Goliath either. And its perpetually dissatisfied neighbors are no Davids. Oversimplified and unforgiving, the very us/them dichotomy lets Harvard affiliates overlook the College’s reliance on Cambridge as it allows Cantabs to neglect Harvard’s stunning community resources. We cannot afford to have bullheaded attitudes prevail at the negotiating table; community building must be a cooperative endeavor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Cheese With That Whine? | 10/20/2004 | See Source »

...must not overlook that our professors, with their “publish or perish” motto, are prey to the same issues which beset us. Horror stories abound about the way in which academic work by the great minds who teach us sometimes gets rushed to print without proper proofreading. Some graduate students who work for professors are forced to drop everything and spend the three days prior to a printers’ deadline reading a professors’ text through; undergraduate faculty aides sometimes correct mistake-addled bibliographies only hours before a conference paper must be given. Something...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, | Title: The Culture of Quantity | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

EVERYONE IN THE U.S. IS BEING HELD TO a higher standard than the President. The same people who are so vehement in their criticism of CBS and Rather continue to overlook the fact that Bush took us into war on the basis of faulty intelligence. Rather has apologized. Bush has expressed no regrets. But nobody died as a result of the CBS program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 18, 2004 | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

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