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...That comparison obviously looks plain silly, now, so instead we are left with Vietnam - albeit different interpretations of Vietnam. As Professor Juan Cole points out, Bush is probably relying on a hawkish view that while the Tet Offensive was a major military defeat for the Viet Cong, the spike of violence it brought may have struck a crippling political blow at the American public's will to fight the war. As Cole notes, the irony is that the upside of Tet may not be the first thing that comes to mind for Americans when their President compares Iraq to Vietnam...
...undergraduates for membership in contemporary global society, the proposed program would discard the Core Curriculum’s once-revolutionary “modes of inquiry” approach, while continuing to require undergraduates to take a prescribed number of courses in a set number of thematic areas. In plain English, it’s a very big deal...
...grad students were tired of paying 10 cents per photocopy at MIT. Seven years before, Xerox had debuted the first automatic plain-paper office copier, and the young engineers were eager to capitalize. “We got into it because at academic institutions, everyone was getting Xerox machines because of the demand there was for a quick, dry, skill-less copier...
...image around the corner, as if about to come forward and pat on my shoulder while waving handsomely at me and greeting me with his huge yet absolutely uncontrived signature smile. Hui does not impress upon first sight, and it takes time for one to look beyond a plain appearance and truly appreciate the many thousand little wonderful things about his personality. His mild temper, sharp wit, indescribable humor, as well as an almost passionate earnestness, all gradually laid solid foundation to countless cherished friendships around campus. In the eyes of many, there hardly exists a better paradigm of kindness...
...Man” is about the Bush administration’s mishandling of Hurricane Katrina, you’ll probably step on your date’s foot. In almost every song, the lyrics don’t reflect the music at all, a point Shears makes plain with the opening track’s ironic title. The juxtaposition of the disco melodies and the heavy subject matter will probably polarize listeners into love-it-or-hate-it camps. Should the Sisters be criticized for making the serious superficial? Or praised for the audacity of having fun in this dark...