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What are the proper borders for a country? The Germans thought Germany should contain all German-speaking people; Poland and Czechoslovakia disagreed, and World War II was the result. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the new political star in Moscow, believes Russia should include the striped sections of the top map below (note the desired piece of land in the northeast corner). Radical Palestinians envision a Palestinian state with the pre-1947 British Mandate borders as reflected in the map below and to the left. And Serbs hope to create a Greater Serbia that would encompass the striped portions of the map below...
Experimenters and lunatics from Lou Reed to Merzbow have been biding their time for decades, stirring up trouble just off stage, while their shrieking sounds wait for the proper time to storm the music world and blow your ears...
...this practical cohabitation brings about a catalog of ethical puzzles. What is the proper protocol in such circumstances? Is it appropriate to ask your neighbors to turn down the music, or stop having loud sex against the wall? Do you complain, or do you put on your headphones, crank up your iTunes and sulk? Is it polite to giggle about your neighbors’ private lives with your friends in the dining hall (and then write about it in the student newspaper)? At what point are you no longer a neighbor, but a voyeur...
...narrative tension, and this fact alone makes Season 7 worth watching. On the cusp of a mud-slinging free-for-all, Santos and Vinick have finally agreed to duke it out, mano-a-mano. Stay tuned next week for “The Debate,” which, in proper network gimmicky fashion, will be broadcast as a live episode. And you thought they jumped the shark way back in Season 2 with that whole hurricane-strikes-Washington thing...
...Seidel says that achieving the proper balance in this relationship requires “a complicated dance” because of Harvard’s facilities and the constraints they place on the geographically small city. As a nonprofit tax-exempt institution, Harvard uses public resources—like roads and sewage channels—with no legal requirement to pay for them. The University makes a voluntary annual payment to the city in lieu of taxes, but politicians frequently call on Harvard to contribute more...