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...outside Old Quincy C and asks for ID, try not to be belligerent. After all, you may look very different without safety goggles. So when running down to the basement to get laundry, the temptation to use your QR textbook as a doorstop may be overwhelming, but resist! Chances are that your late-night visitor isn’t the cute senior from that party last weekend but instead someone who only loves you for one thing: your iPod. After all, Prince Charming knows to knock...
...days of Sino-Russian conflicts over their 1000-mile border. Russia’s arms industry has been brought back to life by Chinese purchases, and China is an ever-growing customer for Russia’s natural resources. As a Security Council tandem, Russia and China can resist Western pressure on all but the most uncontroversial issues. For instance, what serious prospect is there for Security Council action on Iran’s nuclear program since Russia is building Iran’s nuclear power plant and China has signed a $70 billion oil deal with the Iranian theocracy...
Commencement 2006 Charting a Progressive Course Bok, Knowles, and the presidential search committee should resist complacency By THE CRIMSON STAFF Wednesday, June 07, 2006 What the next president cannot—and must not—be is a merely charismatic and charming fundraiser who leaves each tub on its own bottom and lets each faculty do as it pleases. Harvard deserves more from its leader...
...theatrically; on opening weekend, they were the top grossers at 80% of the theaters in which they played last year. But thanks to YouTube, iTunes and AtomFilms, you don't have to go out to see them. At less than 20 minutes, they're eminently downloadable--and who can resist an Oscar-nominated movie...
...trite contemporary fodder. But to give her credit, Cusk redeems these stale themes with exquisite language and is on aesthetic high ground, safe from criticism of low-brow unoriginality.Cusk’s words are so lovely that they make the tongue itch; it’s hard to resist the temptation to read all 248 pages out loud. The lush descriptions of Arlington Park and its residents seem to enter the transcendent realm of poetry.Unfortunately, eloquence does not in itself make a book engaging, and Cusk is perhaps a little too aware of her literary prowess. An otherwise minor...