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...would be convenient to blame the constant rush to achieve—either through gaining higher grades or accumulating superior extracurricular positions to one’s peers—on the atmosphere at Harvard. Yet the sad truth—or, perhaps, the cheery truth—is that pressure here is entirely self-inflicted. It is perfectly possible to coast through, working very little and obtaining what, in pre-gender equality days, used to be called Gentleman’s Cs. Yet, to hear students stress and strain over pointless problem sets and redundant response papers, one would...
...Remember what Larry Summers says: If you rush AEPi and then turn down their bid, your actions are anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intent...
...star than Red Dragon, the prequel to The Silence of the Lambs and clincher in the Thomas Harris-penned horror trilogy. Anthony Hopkins reprises his Oscar-winning role as Hannibal the Cannibal in this film, which is directed by Brett Ratner. Following the success of his last Hollywood victory Rush Hour 2, Ratner now helms a decidedly different sort of action as he takes the reins from Ridley Scott (Hannibal). With Edward Norton as the retired FBI agent who returns to the Bureau to catch a family-slaughtering psychopath (the dashing Ralph Fiennes, believe it or not), this nail-biting...
Iraq's latest agreement to unfettered arms inspections may be just what Secretary of State Colin Powell had been trying to avoid. Not that Powell is in any rush to go to war, but the deal hammered out Tuesday in Vienna after two days of talks between Iraqi officials and UN arms inspectors is based on existing UN resolutions, rather than the tough new ultimatum for which Washington has been pushing at the Security Council. And that could make the difference, for London and Washington, between effective and ineffective inspections. Most irksome to the U.S. in the current deal...
Though Ritter, a former Marine who served in the Gulf War, called Saddam Hussein a “psychopath,” he urged the nation not to rush to judgment or to practice “vigilante justice...