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...tradition of Magnolia and Traffic, Crash’s has a wide breadth of scope: instead of focusing on a single larger story, Crash tells a number of interconnected stories, of which none is clearly dominant...
...mass murder in Sudan is a tragedy of a scope I cannot comprehend. I applaud Senior Gift Plus founders Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and Brandon M. Terry ’05 for bringing it to the forefront of our collective consciousness in a way that could actually effect change in the way the University does business...
...destroy them" - but she despairs that architects frequently ignore a 1989 law requiring disabled access in all new structures, despite fines of up to €25,000 and possible license suspension. The scarcity of accessible toilets also deters many wheelchair users from socializing. In Britain, the cerebral palsy charity Scope found that only 66% of 1,300 clubs, restaurants and other facilities had accessible toilets. When Miguel Angel Fernández goes out in Madrid, he sticks to familiar haunts. "You get used to going to the same cafés, bars and shops," says Fernández, 31, paralyzed...
...General Education has made some encouraging decisions for the future of Harvard undergraduate education. The committee’s preliminary assessments indicate an advocacy of distribution requirements over three general subject areas, as well as two mandatory Harvard College Courses that will be “broad in scope and ambition.” But while distribution requirements will allow for more student freedom in class choice, the committee’s failure to define exactly what a Harvard College Course will entail is worrying; without this clear articulation, it is difficult to support introducing these courses into the College?...
...penalty [Feb. 21], she did not express sorrow or sympathy for the innocent victims of crime and their grieving relatives. She talked about letters from prisoners' mothers as being some of the saddest but didn't mention the victims' mothers. Leonid Oleinik Wanamassa, New Jersey, U.S. Kyoto's Global Scope I was amazed to read your article about the implementation of the Kyoto accord on climate change [Feb. 21], which went into effect in much of the world on Feb. 16. Reduction of greenhouse gases is a global issue, yet you focused on what Europe is doing and the buying...