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Arnie's Win a Sign of U.S. Discontent - The rejection of the status quo which led to the California result has echoes all across the country, writes the BBC's Katty...
...extended periods of time—without the prospect of exams sapping the merriness from every holiday season. The Staff, however, wants to resist a measure that would be a clear and long-overdue improvement to student life. Its ill-conceived position only seeks to conserve the oppressive status quo...
After a painfully long time, the College is, indeed, reviewing a large part of undergraduate education. And any change is likely to be an improvement from the status quo, but in order to make an ideologically sound Core, the Curriculum Review Steering Committee must decide whether there should or should not be a broad, overarching set of knowledge that every Harvard graduate should know by commencement. And, additionally, the College must decide how serious their commitment is to liberal education—serious enough to incorporate Core grades into a student’s concentration GPA? Serious enough...
...goosing placid actors (like Johansson, who looks eerily like the young James Spader) and mining a comic's deadpan depths. Watch Murray's eyes in the climactic scene in the hotel lobby: while hardly moving, they express the collapsing of all hopes, the return to a sleepwalking status quo. You won't find a subtler, funnier or more poignant performance this year than this quietly astonishing turn...
Ideally, Beijing would like to maintain the status quo: a weak but relatively stable North Korea not openly engaged in building a nuclear arsenal. Says Chu Shulong, a political scientist at Tsinghua University in Beijing: "China is more concerned about a crisis spinning out of control." Few anywhere want that; but it would be no surprise if Bush Administration hawks, who have long wanted to step up pressure on Pyongyang, now saw little reason to extend their patience. "The North Koreans have run this particular film on too many Saturday nights," says a Western diplomat. Sounds like someone's getting...