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...giving serious thought to the issues that will directly affect their academic experience at Harvard. The College should work to encourage this ongoing discussion, and it should continue throughout the spring semester through broad discussions. But the dialogue must focus on evaluating the current proposals and suggesting only slight modifications to them, not on brainstorming new ones—the curricular review has already been formulated, and now the Faculty and College community must debate the individual proposals as they are written.The overarching purpose of the curricular review is to benefit undergraduates, and immediate passage of the centerpieces...
...what makes The Sopranos a great, not just entertaining, show is that the most disturbing stories are about Tony's casual, selfish, bloodless cruelties. The ruin of another person is better than a slight inconvenience to him, and no matter how many promises he breaks or lives he destroys, he always believes himself more sinned against than sinning. He has toddled through the series like an overindulged two-year-old, protected from the consequences of his actions by perverse fate, and protected from their moral consequences by his power of rationalization. After he shafts a helpless civilian in a business...
...face encounter with his female lawyer out of respect for his sensitivities as a religious Muslim - and eventually managed to arrange their first conversation. In a room barely large enough for three chairs and a small table, Al-Qahtani appeared in an orange jump-suit, his legs shackled. A slight man in his mid 30s with short black hair and a beard, he was initially preoccupied with learning how his aging father in Saudi Arabia had contacted the lawyer, and how he could be sure that she was not another interrogator simply seeking to extract more information, Gutierrez said...
...finishing 41st in the slalom. She clocked in at 53.27 and 58.82 for a combined time of 1:52.09. “My slalom was actually hysterical, because I literally fell through the finish line at the end of my second run,” Dickerson said. Despite the slight embarrassment, Dickerson finished out her four years on the team with a personal best in the giant slalom, placing 49th with a time of 2:26.64. Junior Kathleen Connors finished behind Dickerson for 47th place on a 2:02.76 time, and sophomore Jay Teng and freshmen Caroline Cochin de Billy...
...sense, the cartoon uproar may have a lot less to do with religion or culture than with politics. "Arabs should have responded in a cooler way," says Mourad Gharib, 42, a journalist in Cairo. "But it's as though we're standing on a hot piece of metal. Any slight change in temperature can affect Arab society...