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...Glinda, a perky prom queen used to getting her own way. The two become unlikely friends. But things go awry when Elphaba finds herself on the wrong side of the not-so-wonderful Wizard. He tricks her into using her spells to enslave the animals of the realm. She's turned into a pariah--even Glinda abandons her--and, as if that weren't enough, some farm girl's house has fallen smack on her sister...
...politically-disinterested actors as they observe the events preceding a presidential election, all in the name of searching for today’s definition of democracy. Though the last film in the series employed the decidedly liberal Robert Downey, Jr. as narrator, Hoffman seems a newcomer to the political realm, but no less jaded for his self-imposed separation from politics. The documentary follows the 2000 presidential election (the original plan was to release The Last Party on inauguration day, but complications arose), and, though it draws attention to some salient issues, it leaves the audience in the end sharing...
Many people circumvent the issue of belief by taking Buddhism out of that realm altogether. Sullivan, who was also attracted by the “mystic aspects” of Buddhism, says, “it’s probably taken [me] 13 years just to see that it’s a religion.” Counter-intuitive as that may sound, it is actually a pretty common sentiment among many who come to Buddhism in adulthood. The most popular way of expressing it is to say, as Henry W. Mak ’06 says...
...there were no free pizza. We would go because we were actually interested in comping. We might even have gone to the “Famine Banquet” held in Eliot House last month even if Bhumi hadn’t promised a catered dinner. But, beyond the realm of the ideal, there are things we can do to promote ourselves without appealing to our baser instincts...
...health-care overhaul went nowhere, but former President Bill Clinton is having more success in the humanitarian realm. He announced an ambitious program last week to help developing countries clear two major obstacles in fighting AIDS: the high cost of antiretroviral drugs and the low quality of their own health-care systems. His foundation has enlisted four drug companies, which will offer AIDS-fighting drugs at one-third the usual price. Four African countries and more than a dozen in the Caribbean region have signed on for the program...