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...well have said, "I voted for Hitler." So if Sidney is to swim back into J.J.'s orbit, he'll have to do the crawl. J.J. wants to see whether Sidney's pugnacity will overcome his need to grovel; how much will he scrap, and how much scrape? We watch J.J. watching Sidney from the great height of his own megalomania. It happens that Lancaster was five inches taller than Curtis, 6ft.2 to 5ft.9, but in the scene outside "21" Burt is literally head and shoulders above Tony, as if Sidney were walking in the gutter...
...phenomenal problems affecting those within this system don’t even apply to the estimated 38.5 million Americans who remain uninsured or the millions of others who still scrape by on insufficient government aid. Extending basic health care to these citizens is a critical national priority. The federal government should guarantee a minimum standard of coverage to every American via social insurance—allowing doctors and hospitals to remain private...
...current Core program does more harm than good. Instead of allowing students to choose among the enriching courses that are offered in Harvard’s diverse array of concentrations, as a distribution requirement would do, the Core restricts students to choosing among watered-down survey courses that barely scrape the surface of the intended subject material. Similar departmental courses with identical approaches to knowledge—exposure to which is the supposed aim of the Core—rarely count for Core credit. Students would be better served by a system in which they were exposed to more...
...those, you’ve known since your sophomore year that you’d be writing a long research paper during your senior year. Moreover, there is really no reason to write one anyway; everyone knows you can graduate from Harvard with honors if you can scrape together a B average...
...alpine action, Harvard managed to scrape up 35 points thanks to an all-around effort—seven different skiers contributed points to the final score...