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...fixation on politics distracts from the things that matter most. I implore you, those who pore over every rise or fall in the polls, who hash out the byzantine intricacies of health care or foreign policy, to do a simple thing: Embrace the anarchy in your life. I don’t mean for you to take up a black flag, riot in the streets, or shoot President McKinley. I mean something that is more human than political wonkery, something you forget as you are overcome by primaries and polls. Politics is important, but some things in life should remain...
...written by Carnahan). The movie's guiding force is producer Michael Mann, who made the small- and big-screen versions of Miami Vice. The Mann style is everywhere evident: in the prowling camera and elliptical editing, the pile-driving music (a surprisingly formulaic score by Denny Elfman), the gigantic, pore-probing closeups of the actors' faces, the vigorous ersatz-realism. Everything moves so much and so fast that the movie seems both gutsy and brainy. But the main strategy is to keep viewers' pulses racing so they concentrate on the action, not the message...
...grand as these reforms might be, they resonate on a much smaller scale with the individual students who anxiously pore over and proofread their college applications during the fall rush. Harvard institutes its changes on behalf of these nameless faces, with the aim of equalizing and enriching their experience. But while the admissions office can aim for equality on its end of a highly controlled process, it is impossible to hope for equity of experience in the pre-college lives of actual students...
...imprisonment of its charismatic leader, Abdullah Ocalan (known to Kurds simply as "Apo"), the group, numbering several thousand, retreated to the mountains of northern Iraq. There, its members abjure worldly goods and alcohol, practice strict gender equality (though sex between members is not allowed), while rising early to pore over left-wing political tracts. While they fought originally for a "free Kurdistan" for all Kurds, lately they have limited their demands to improved rights for Turkey's Kurdish minority and an amnesty for p.k.k. fighters: "We want to be acknowledged," Zübeyir Aydar, the head of Kongra...
Widener Library: 1. Titanic library built in memory of a Titanic drowning victim. 2. Home to the stacks, where students go to pore over books. Yup, nothing but readin’ in these stacks...