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...center at Hilles; yet, the idea struck a discordant note with some and incited knee-jerk criticisms from students who didn’t know what it was about. The plan’s antagonists were quick to condemn the center as just some half-baked ultra-feminist plot or a token effort to recognize women. Students who oppose the proposal, however, need to do some serious reassessment...
...terrorist groups are living in New Zealand, says Foreign Minister Goff, but nor is it likely. "Because we're a small country," he says, "we're very nosy people. If people turn up behaving oddly, we tend to notice." (In 2000, Auckland police said they'd busted a plot to blow up Sydney's nuclear reactor during the Olympic Games. The evidence fell apart and all charges against the suspects, two Afghan taxi drivers, were dropped. A retired Australian intelligence officer familiar with the case puts it down to "police hysteria.") The 40,000-strong Muslim community has "nothing...
...movie. Director Wolfgang Petersen, writer David Benioff and their cohort just about pull it off. In this vigorous, stalwart epic, they blend martial breadth and emotional intimacy, honor and obsession, romance and machismo to show the glamour and folly of war. Old men plot; young men die; strong women weep...
...hard to get terribly worked up about this predictable play, which does not exactly have the benefit of hilarious dialogue (“I tap danced for ten years.” “Wow—I get tired after ten minutes!”) a tight plot (the Fodors, of guidebook fame, show up in town apparently for the sole purpose of allowing Ludwig to work in a particular musical number), searching character portrayals (“I want to dance! I don’t care about money.”), or deep emotional investment...
Nikki tells readers she normally teaches two sections of “Intro Economics” at Harvard on Monday, but that she has cancelled class to give her students time to work on a term-paper. None of the novel’s contrived plot twists approach the absurdity of the suggestion that a Harvard professor on a tenure track would ever see the inside of an Ec 10 section—much less saddle students in that class with an assignment as onerous as a term paper. Thomas-Graham’s business background—she earned...