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...personal “bazzaaam” has impressed a lot of people, and he was elected as HRDC president during his junior year. Traditionally, actors have served as the presidents, but both Ur’s predecessor and successor are techies.Ur has a theory about that shift: “We [techies] are so used to thinking of the arts in an infrastructural way, thinking about how to make stuff happen. I guess we make good administrators.”A computer science concentrator, Ur says that the problem-solving abilities he has gained from his studies and experience...
...Olmert, meanwhile, could be tempted to try to shift attention away from past mistakes by pursuing a breakthrough in negotiations with the Palestinians, or even with Syria - or, conversely, by taking action against Iran, although Olmert has toned down his statements on this front and emphasized diplomacy as the solution to the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program. But given the level of public confidence in his ability to protect Israel's national security, he may not be given the latitude to make any dramatic moves...
...slides have degraded in the last three-quarters of a century, and enlarging the slides has exaggerated the somewhat splotchy coloring that makes the otherwise impressive miniaturist painting seem careless.RELICS AND ORNAMENTSIt is little surprise, then, that the photographs which sustain and reward lengthy viewings are those that shift the focus away from naturalistic subjects. “Shamanistic mirror worn at exorcism festival” (1923) shows a large, round, ornamented, and polished metal mirror. Surrounded by swatches of a colorful robe, the bright, silvery-blue hue of the mirror is radiant. Rather than merely reflect the viewer?...
...said he’s seen a lot of changes in the industry since he began wrestling in 1989. According to Austin, the most pronounced shift was the gradual abandonment of the conceit that wrestling is “real” in the sense of not having its matches predetermined...
...about the book, reported that Tenet acknowledges that he made his storied remark about the prewar intelligence on Iraq being a "slam dunk," but that other U.S. officials shared his comment with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward - many months after the fact - out of context in an effort to shift the blame for the war's costs and direction from the White House to the CIA. Tenet describes watching an episode of Meet the Press in 2006 in which Vice President Cheney cited the "slam dunk" comment as a critical reason behind the U.S. invasion of Iraq and recalls thinking...