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...remember the title: A Christmas Tale. During the holidays, we are supposed to make our best reconciliatory efforts with our relatives and render our deepest distrusts and dislikes mute for a couple of days. Accordingly, this film is a triumph of willed optimism (or perhaps more accurately, of grudging good nature) over unhappy experiences, though it does not make any large promises about the future of this family. It suffices that somehow all of its characters survive their forced intimacy intact, if not necessarily wiser for the experience. It seemed to me as I left the theater that A Christmas...
...Gibran does not speak for “the East.” Quite the contrary, he speaks from somewhere in-between, the gray area that is perhaps hardest to define. It is his unique struggle to reconcile the values of both worlds that render his work a worthy read. Not only are his views of child-rearing surprisingly modern for the 20s, but he also incorporates such stereotypically American ideas as that of personal living-space and the capitalist work ethic alongside more traditional concepts of sin and religion. Though of Christian heritage and clearly inspired by the Bible...
...students from their house or yard. They also do not vote in cases involving students with whom they have an advising relationship. Additionally, all members of the Board can abstain, and sometimes do, when they feel that their relationship and/or prior knowledge makes it impossible for them to render a vote without bias...
...Their "case" is full of so much hate and dishonesty. The American people are about to render their verdict on the right's case. From this point forward, I believe that anyone who works for peace or decent health care will be thanked, not spat upon. Tuesday can't come soon enough...
...recent campus efforts to reduce Harvard’s carbon footprint, and the excessive lengths to which the administration has gone to promote them, threaten to render the whole project ridiculous and inspire contempt for the cause in the minds of most reasonable observers...