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...mild-mannered scientist Jon Osterman (Billy Crudup) into Dr. Manhattan is a gem of lucid storytelling. Shuffling the sequence of tenses, the film shows Jon as a young man in love, a fellow scarred by a nuclear accident, a boy watching his watchmaker dad, a superhero who can change size and location at will, a middle-aged stud letting his old love slip away as he finds someone younger, and finally, a sad sack of blue mourning the ordinary life he lost. Again, all is conveyed in a few minutes--a few quick, deft strokes. (See pictures of animated movies...
...changes that would provide a more hierarchical structure, student-faculty committee members would also be given decision-making power, subject to a veto by the Dean that chairs the committee.Changes to the structure of the Finance Committee were also proposed, including a reduction in the committee’s size and a rotating membership drawn from the three proposed advocacy committees.“I don’t see any real drawback to have a smaller committee,” said FiCom chair Sundeep S. Iyer ’11.However, several UC members pointed to the benefits of institutional...
...Economic cooperation is the crown jewel of the EU and demands preservation if the EU is to endure. The Euro currency is used by 16 EU nations, which together constitute an economy the same size as the United States’s, and the fair-weather economic interdependence has been a lucrative source of prestige. The EU simply cannot afford to so accurately fulfill Euroskeptic predictions and allow its unity shatter in more turbulent economic conditions...
...addition to the principal of the system’s only high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin. Nearly three-quarters of the budget—74.5 percent—is allocated to expenditures in schools, roughly the same proportion as last year. The budget would preserve small elementary class size and keep the student teacher ratio at about 18:1. Three new kindergarten classrooms were also included in the budget, as projected kindergarten enrollment in the coming academic year is projected to rise almost 7 percent to 800 children. According to James Maloney, the chief operating officer for the Cambridge...
Enforcing global justice has to be the legal challenge of all time. The International Criminal Court has worldwide authority, but its executive power is limited to a few buildings in the Hague and its budget to $125 million, one-thirtieth the size of the New York Police Department's. It has wide agreement on what constitute the worst offenses, but its mandate to prosecute them is rejected by the governments of more than half the world's people...