Word: perilousness
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...Nicholas Tse, with sideburns at proper idol-length). Tse turns out to be a drug smuggler, and because carnally cavorting with convicted criminals is a no-no in the Public Security Bureau, Goddess abruptly switches gears to an '80s cop-revenge drama, complete with shootouts and children in peril. All that's missing is Mel Gibson and Danny Glover engaging in witty repartee and senseless violence...
...felony, rehab—he will be a liability. Unless the choice is almost inhumanly scandal-free, nothing else matters. Senator Kerry, you could object to this rule, you could (rightly) argue that it drives many qualified, capable people out of public life. But ignore it at your peril...
...reason I am crestfallen, then, is Freinberg’s painfully mistaken belief that “we confuse true intellectual enlightenment with Harvard-style academics at our peril.” For him, apparently Harvard means “facile response papers, mandatory section participation and finals where students spew professors’ own words back at them (or, more likely, at teaching fellows),” which “squelches independent thought.” In sum, Freinberg complains that watching “Jeopardy!” is more educational and more fun than his section...
...not—and should not be—about how many facts we can absorb in four years. Being able to think intelligently about the problems we face is clearly a terrifically important skill—but we confuse true intellectual enlightenment with Harvard-style academics at our peril. Harvard’s current system—based around facile response papers, mandatory section participation and finals where students spew professors’ own words back at them (or, more likely, at teaching fellows)—does not encourage students to think for themselves enough, and often squelches...
...Iraq on June 30. Until now, violence against U.S. troops and their allies had come almost exclusively from the country's Sunni Arab minority. But if the weekend's violence portends the onset of sustained resistance from the Shiite majority as well, U.S. authority Iraq may be in peril...