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Take that title literally: This is No Country for Old Men. It may be no country for any life form more evolved than a Gila Monster. We're talking West Texas here, not far from the U.S.-Mexican border. The landscape is as bleak as the moon's dark side and its relatively few inhabitants lead lives that are scrubbed down to the basics. That is to say, it is pretty much kill or be killed in the Coen brothers adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's spare and unsparing novel...
...battle between secular values and extremism, Iqbal says, Musharraf is seeking to justify his actions and appeal to moderate Pakistanis. But Iqbal doubts it will work, as even moderate Muslims have had enough of military rule. "Musharraf is pushing a large chunk of moderate but religious Pakistanis to side with the extremists, even if unwillingly," he says...
...date regularly,” said Edward C. Robinson ’09. But others feel that being paired with a stranger is a gamble. “It’s too risky; you don’t know who is on the other side,” said Grace Kim ’11. The fame of the creators’ previous sites may help make the case for CrazyBlindDate. “If the people who made SparkNotes made it, then why not?” said John Koullias ’11. The trio?...
...dramatic standoff with the administration made for some great political theater, it is hard to imagine what the UC believed it was going to accomplish given that it was going up against an opponent that had the weight of money, power, and federal and state law on its side. If the UC really wanted to secure the future of a non-alcoholic party fund, surely less confrontational measures could have been used—it shouldn’t take a month to get the College to pay for chips and salsa. We also fear that the UC?...
There'll be an unfamiliar face at Angela Merkel's side when the German Chancellor travels to President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Friday - Germany's "first gentleman," Joachim Sauer. Unlike other head-of-state spouses in Germany and elsewhere, Sauer is rarely seen at his wife's side as she carries out her duties as the world's most powerful woman...