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...bridge into a river, planting napalm (a nice Vietnam touch) in an enemy compound. Indeed, the film is best at giving instructions in the assembling and detonation of weapons of movie distraction. And Wahlberg, so muscled up he looks as if he's ready to explode, is serious and committed to the genre. We happen to be in a period when the youngish male stars are mostly light comedians. Wahlberg could be the actor that action movies have been looking for since Sly, Arnold, Harrison, Bruce, Jackie and Jean-Claude - all in their...
...this is nuts,” Atran wrote. “How is anybody in academia ever going to have as much as possible to offer in this whole mess—though people in academia keep complaining that the government doesn’t pay attention to serious scholars—if no one can even talk to the people most involved...
SUBPOENA POWER The government seems to be paying attention to at least one serious scholar...
...budget. For example, the Harvard College Fund, to which many Harvard College graduates contribute annually with the hope to improving undergraduate life, is actually controlled by the Dean of FAS and often fails to be disbursed in a way that affects undergraduates in any direct way. We hope that serious adjustments can be made in the structural relations of FAS and the College such that the College can set its own priorities and have more freedom to improve undergraduate life. Funds donated in the name of undergraduates should actually reach them...
...bomber blew himself up as a deputy prime minister was walking out of a well-guarded mosque near his home on the edge of the fortified Green Zone in the middle of Baghdad. Salam al-Zubaie was struck in the chest by shrapnel and remains in hospital in a serious condition after undergoing surgery, according to the Iraqi authorities. The blast killed nine people, and wounded 14 more, including five of the minister's bodyguards...