Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coach Clark Hodder '25 sat down to assess the state of his struggling team on March 5, 1941, there wasn't a whole lot he could do. Back in those days, there was no NCAA tournament, no ECAC and no Beanpot. An Ivy League title was out of the question since Harvard, 2-8-1 at the time, would play only one more game before the season expired...
True, having a career and a good family are not mutually exclusive--many people have both. But having both involves sacrifice in career and family. Like any life decision, it is, in the end, a question of priorities. Why choose the career? Is it because we really want it or is it because we feel it is what we should do? People at Harvard tell us over and over again that we should do what we love. What troubles me is so few of us here ever include having a family as an option...
That is probably the response I should have expected from eight-year-olds, but it really made me take stock and try to answer the question for myself...
...technology makes them omnipotent and omniscient in this computer age, utilizing the Internet, telephone lines and microwave transmissions to pinpoint your location and observe your actions anywhere you try to hide. Even though most conspiracy theorists profess the above statements as absolute facts, rarely can they answer one simple question: who are "they?" Enemy of the State is yet another movie with a central character who is desperately trying to answer this question. This time, the result is a thrilling, high-paced, intense battle between Will Smith and technologically advanced, government-controlled computer geeks that offers little time for breathing...
Presumably, Very Bad Things will be ignored by all but those who evaluate movies in terms of shock and gore. Jon Favreau and the other talented people involved in this movie will presumably go on to, if not Great, at least Somewhat Better Things. The question of whether dark comedy, which was so vital so recently, can survive is unresolved. Certainly the existence of the movie paints a pessimistic picture of what happens to innovators in Hollywood: their innovations are derivatively imitated or altogether scorned. Such were the fates of Pulp Fiction and The Cable Guy, respectively. One hopes, however...