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...Street area already had its monster mash, on 9/11. So there's no way you can watch downtown panic and crumbling towers without it seeming a bit... familiar. Naturally the director says, he didn't want to diminish or exploit the residue of grief from 9/11. And, as the press notes inform us, "The visual effects teams even took care that the collapsing buildings in the film were older-looking structures that did not evoke the style of the structures that were attacked six years earlier." You're right, visual effects team. It doesn't bother a New Yorker...
...freedom," I wonder why you didn't select President George W. Bush a third time for his choosing safety from terrorism before terrorists' rights [Dec. 31, 2007 - Jan. 7, 2008]. No, TIME would much rather recognize a virtual dictator for his supposed achievements: violently suppressing dissent, crushing the free press and heading a regime that has been accused of murdering opponents and expropriating private property for the state. On the other hand, TIME loves to natter on about how Gitmo prisoners should be granted U.S. constitutional freedoms, privileges and rights because they happened to be in the wrong place...
Both Harvard and Yale’s press releases gave examples of a family earning $180,000 per year. Harvard would expect such a family to contribute approximately $18,000, while Yale said such families would be expected to contribute $23,050—more than 10 percent of income—if they only had one child in college and $11,650 if they had two children in college...
...Tuesday Taliban spokesman Zaibiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the bombing, telling the Associated Press by phone that the insurgent group would increase attacks against venues frequented by Westerners. "We will target all these restaurants in Kabul where foreigners are eating," he said. "We have jihadists in Kabul right now and soon we will carry out more attacks." The Taliban's new targets don't show up on international assistance budgets or diplomatic mission logs, but they are the infrastructure that sustains the Afghan support effort. Those who congregate at the Serena don't live in fortified compounds walled off from...
...with multiracial heritage and experiences have their own set of questions and issues to address as a community, as well as a special contribution to make to the university. Yet neither the Harvard Foundation nor Harvard at large offers any institutional awareness of multiraciality. Even among all the laudatory press releases and news stories about climbing percentages of minority admissions and on campus, an entire demographic goes uncounted and unacknowledged. How is that diversity...