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...invaders shoot Little Zhang's grandmother in the back, the boy seeks revenge by joining an underground Red Army detachment. He moves among heroic Chinese patriots, sniveling collaborators and sadistic Japanese. The finale comes with Little Zhang helping blow up a trainload of Japanese soldiers and receiving a cherished reward: a pistol with which to kill more Japanese. "I thought about including one sympathetic Japanese character, but this is an anti-Japan war movie and I don't want to confuse anyone," says Sun, who will premier his film on International Children...
...similar fashion, the Solomon Amendment is a heavy-handed reaction to a genuine disagreement of institutional values. But its most dangerous repercussion is its misconstrual of the role universities play in society. By conditioning federal funding on compliance with military recruitment, the Pentagon makes federal funding seem like a reward. This perpetrates the image of federal grants as a one-sided benefit—that Harvard receives a large sum of taxpayer money essentially for free. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Harvard indeed receives from the government—to the tune of over $400 million...
...years. By ending on “Timor,” one of her trademark pulsating Latin dancehall numbers, “Vol. II” leaves the listener confused, and wanting “something” a little more unified.Although the album has a few songs which reward repeat listens “Vol. II” lacks enough memorable singles to compare to her past work. None of the new songs have the sensuality of “La Tortura,” the energy of “Objection (The Tango),” the pounding...
...last week, candidates have scurried about in blue blazers and ties, promising the world to anyone they happen across. Longer hours for Cambridge eateries, free coursepacks, bike lanes in the Yard and much more—offered up, with little chance that any of it will be accomplished.The reward for shmoozing and outlandishness has been a bevy of nonsensical endorsements. Ethnic groups, who rely on the UC to fund Cinco de Mayo festivities and baba ghanoush feeds, seem to be particularly rapt with this game, but the implications of an ethnic endorsement are transparently ludicrous. Can campus Arabs hope...
...director of freshman, recounted how Hadfield, his roommate freshman year, encouraged him to apply for a job with the Freshman Intramural Program and even wrote him a recommendation without being asked to. “Tom is that way, he will do anything for anyone without any thought of reward,” Werly says. “He would truly serve the student body if elected. Tom has big ideas and nothing is too big for him.” Wojciech P. Kaszynski ’07, a member of the Woodbridge Society of International Students and an active...