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...also try to be sure that cities like New York and Washington are prepared to deal with biological and chemical attacks; that the major ports - like Long Beach, Calif.--are protected; that nuclear-power plants and oil refineries and chemical plants are guarded? Apparently, there has been precious little progress on any of these fronts. "The Administration just hasn't made the commitment to homeland security that it has to national security," Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who is not a guy, told me last week. "They're not focused on it the same way they...
...return anything you don't like. Second, do your research before you type in your credit-card number. The Jewelers Vigilante Committee jvclegal.org is a good place to start; it offers a buyer's checklist and links to buying tips for diamonds, pearls, gold, silver and other precious gems...
...Roberts also wastes precious time and space concentrating on superficial characterizations of new or lesser-known characters for whom the target audience presumably cares little. Who are Rev-Tone and Quark, and more importantly, who cares? The thrill of the ride is thus somewhat tempered by the lack of an emotional connection with much of the cast. Famous favorites are unexpectedly MIA, among them the Dinobots, the Constructicons, and Starscream. Standing in for these A-list robots are the supernumeraries of the Transformer world, unknowns and footnotes whose inclusion does nothing for the story. Those recognizable faces that are used...
...choose not to attend a valuable course meeting, that is their loss. Alternatively, if a professor gives tedious lectures whose content can be more enjoyably gleaned from a book or if a teaching fellow leads facile and useless discussion sections, why should intelligent students be forced to waste their precious time solely to prove themselves committed enough to merit a good grade? A Harvard education should be about challenging the brightest students of their generation to realize their intellectual potential. And that can only come about when professors cut down on the quantity of pointless class requirements in order...
...viewers the Creep—and how to wear a smug, self-satisfied expression while you slippedy-slide to Coolio’s “Fantastic Voyage.” I’m sure that I’m not the only Harvard student who has spent precious time in front of their parents’ full length mirror imitating Eric’s moves, keeping in mind of course his constant, grave reminders to “drink a lotta water, ya gotta drink ya water...