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...voted to re-elect him realize their mistake. Sue Brown West Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. Bush's political antenna isn't broken; it is tuned to the interests of Big Money. The transmission is on an encrypted frequency, and it directs the President much like a radio-controlled toy car. Peter Farr Olympia, Washington, U.S. Honoring a World Champion When I turned to your March 6 coverage of the Winter Olympics in Torino, the big story I found was about the doping controversy involving Austrian skiers - nothing about the positive aspects of the Olympics. What about the "clean" participants? What about...
...either follow Finland’s example of raising public funding to meet increased educational demand, or copy the U.S. model where universities rely heavily on private tuition. “The [European Union] universities are in crisis,” said Krupp Foundation professor of European studies, Peter A. Hall. He said that while enrollment has risen in many European universities, the increase in the student body has not been matched with higher funding. “French or German universities rely heavily on public funding as do all university systems in Europe, and that?...
...president of the Vermont state senate, Peter Welch, called Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean “the more conservative of the two of us” as he addressed undergraduates in Kirkland House last night. And Welch, who said he was Dean’s close friend, urged Harvard students to come to Vermont to help him campaign for the House vacancy left by Representative Bernie Sanders, an Independent. Sanders decided to run for the U.S. Senate shortly after the departure of the Senate’s only Independent, Jim Jeffords, in April 2005. Harvard College Democrats President...
...said. Throughout the service, a number of other audience members—including several students—came to the podium to share memories of Stone, relating how he had touched their lives and changed their perspectives. At the beginning of his eulogy, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and minister in Memorial Church, made light of the occasional tension between those in the fields of religion and psychology. He recalled asking Stone, “What do they do over there [in William James Hall]?” Stone replied, “You don?...
...wispy thing, with eccentric line readings and maundering instead of majesty. Carver's off-putting mannerisms tilt the focus from Gandalf to the hobbits--leprechaunish here, with round bellies and bottoms, like the Munchkins in MGM's Oz--persuasively played by jockey-size actors. James Loye, as Frodo, and Peter Howe, as Sam, get the message that heroes are ordinary folk who rise under extraordinary circumstances. In this predominantly Canadian cast, the other main roles are handsomely filled. But the show stealer is Michael Therriault as Gollum. Hissing and squealing, writhing convulsively to express Gollum's two warring psyches...