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...this goad will likely not be enough to silence his critics. Congress should seek to establish hearings to examine the war and the evolving role of U.S. troops in Iraq. Most important, though, as this process proceeds, the growing chorus of critics must keep oversight, not political gain, in sharp focus. Congress is not asking for a timetable for a withdrawal, nor should it. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld rightly contended that such a timetable would only set a concrete date for insurgents to outlast U.S. troop presence. Instead, this bill is really about redefining the rhetorical playing field...
With the departure of sharp-shooter Kevin Rogus, junior Jim Goffredo projects to be the Crimson’s shooting guard this season...
...very free way to work.”HAZY GENRE BLENDINGThe starting point for the film was the script, written by Richard Russo and Robert Benton, and adapted from a Scott Phillips novel. It’s a nasty, biting little bugger, a film noir bejeweled with shards of sharp black comedy. Its seedy characters—linked together through mob ties—mingle aimlessly in squalid strip clubs and vast stretches of barren glacial suburbia. They’re all motivated by a common goal: escaping the tedium that lays thick all over Wichita, Kan. It?...
...applicants sent in early admission applications. After Harvard reinstated its policy of single-choice Early Action—meaning that students who apply early to Harvard under the school’s nonbinding program cannot apply early to any other colleges—the College saw a sharp drop in the size of its early applicant pool, handling 3,889 applications in 2003 and 4,214 applications in 2004. Fitzsimmons said that the College has admitted just over 20 percent of the students who applied early during each of the past two years, but noted that “it?...
...really not unreasonable to liken it to a religious conversion,” says Rebecca Senf, one of the exhibit’s curators.The rest of the 180 or so photographs in the exhibit trace Adams’ mastery of straight photography—a style emphasizing sharp detail and tonal range over fuzzy abstraction that Adams gleaned from contemporaries like Paul Strand and Edward Weston. But while the latter two used the technique to capture the intricacies of daily life with pictures of people, bicycles and bell peppers, Adams took the requisite large-format view camera (he shot each...