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...story that preceded it. The notion the movie floats, of an uninfected colony north of the city, is literally too Utopian to seem either plausible or attractive to a hardened case like Neville. Smith has inhabited the character so fully, and let moviegoers inside with him, that they may prefer going down with him than escaping to some fantasyland that looks like the one in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village...
...that T-Fried is the king of the pithy-and-possibly-wildly-inaccurate aphorism. But he really dropped the ball this year! He cited his best metaphors as being from people he knew instead of making them up himself. A prime example from Dec. 2: “I prefer the term ‘global weirding,’ coined by Hunter Lovins.” Sure, he did write some of his own, but they were sub-par, to say the least. “People don’t give up land for peace in a deal...
...reason to deny it to anyone. The goal of financial aid should be facilitating attendance, not condemning irresponsible spending. After all, in most cases, students are financially dependent on their parents, and probably have little say in how their parents spend. No matter what parents make, if they prefer cars and flat screen televisions to paying tuition, that may only be reflected in the total height of the mountain of loans their child accrues—something Harvard should try to prevent at all cost. And there are many “legitimate” reasons why people with...
Republicans normally pour the same amount of uncertainty into picking a presidential nominee that Buckingham Palace puts into its Changing of the Guard. That is, as little as possible. Republicans prefer to find a brand-name, big-state governor, surround him with the same right-thinking brains on taxes, foreign policy and the New Testament, back him with all the cash he will need to corner TV time in New Hampshire and then run the nominee through a quick gauntlet of primaries before anyone else has a chance at the prize. The whole thing makes for more of a ritual...
...organizations troubles some French authorities. For example, Algerian officials and commentators indicated as recently as this year that military offensives and amnesty programs have decimated AQIM ranks, only to be quickly bloodied anew by spectacular attacks. Some critics also contend that underestimated official death counts indicate the regime may prefer to deny the extent of civilian suffering rather than acknowledge AQIM's deadly effectiveness. Within 24 hours of Tuesday's blasts, for example, the official death toll of 26 was less than half of the 67 or more reported by hospitals...