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...nation-states, it was essential for one country--in this case, the U.S. at the close of the 19th century--to avoid "a miserly economy in preparation for war." And for a state as dependent on sea power as America, it was unthinkable that the nation "rely for defence [sic] upon a navy composed partly of antiquated hulks, and partly of new vessels rather more worthless than the old." The U.S. was rising to world-power status, but it could do so only on the back of a powerful and efficient Navy...
...President John S. Haddock ’07, who supported the plan to downsize the council, wrote in an e-mail to the UC shortly after Monday’s meeting that the UC had “sacrificed our greaest [sic] opportunity to improve the UC’s standing in the eyes of the student body...
...staple of the Shakespeare performance circuit, according to Associate Professor of History and Literature Blair G. Hoxby. “Although the play is not performed as often as ‘Hamlet’ or ‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream,’ [sic] it is widely respected and quite frequently performed,” he writes in an email. So why is there a need for a 21st-century overhaul? For the producers and director of this new adaptation, the answer is simple: the 1595 version has the substance, but not the style...
...find both the responses of Little Brown and their author Kaayva [sic] Viswanathan deeply troubling and disingenuous. Ms. Viswanathan's claim that similarities in her phrasing were 'unconscious' or 'unintentional' is suspect. We have documented more than forty passages from Kaavya Viswanathan's recent publication 'How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life' that contain identical language and/or common scene or dialogue structure from Megan McCafferty's first two books, 'Sloppy Firsts' and 'Second Helpings.' This extensive taking from Ms. McCafferty's books is nothing less than an act of literary identity theft...
...sound like a not quite 12 year old lapsed piano student girl’s version of the Black Sabbath or Birthday Party or Bauhaus or the Pil Flowers of Romance records she’s never actually heard, just overheard her older sister and her friends Talking About [sic] behind the slammed-shut bedroom door. The girl goes down and bangs on the piano in anger and boredom, singing of lost loves she never knew and world-weariness she never felt, etc. That is the scene or theater of this record.” If you?...