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...haven’t changed from semester to semester,” Carpenter said. The increase in food prices seems to be leaving an especially poor taste in the mouths of Harvard students as Harvard Dining Services (HUDS) finds itself constricted by the soaring prices and its strict budget. “They used to have different kinds of pasta,” said Anthony J. Carlson ’09, “but now they have one kind of pasta and always have brown rice. Are we supposed to put the pasta sauce on the rice...
...past belongs to us," Miss Falewicz finally says, enunciating Gondry's message. "We can change it any way we like." In strict movie terms, that sounds like Hollywood giving itself a license to maraud its old films: to show them chopped down to fit a TV time slot and a standard TV frame; to interrupt them every few mins. with commercials; to colorize them; to issue dubious re-cuts that, say, put decades-later digital effects in Star Wars and leave fans of the originals scrounging for copies the only place they're available...
...Times itself, at the start of its original salad days, just before the turn of the century. In an October 1897 article, George P. Rowell explains the paper’s sudden success. Instead of cutting rate, the staff upped the ante with a “strict insistence upon absolutely trustworthy and impartial news reports, and a rigid maintenance of its apt motto, ‘All the news that’s fit to print.’” The effect on circulation was undeniable, and it proved to Rowell and the world...
...Interpol officials say they encourage countries to send detailed data about wanted citizens in order to avoid such mistakes, and they stress that its constitutional rules allow for strict independent oversight of its activities and finances. Yet Western governments - typically with plenty of money to invest in their own national police and intelligence services - often prefer to keep tight control of their data rather than share it with Interpol, not least because its members include countries with which they have tense relationships, such as Cuba and Syria. "The irony is that countries which Interpol would like to cooperate most with...
...than U.S. intelligence reports. (Subsequently, U.S. intelligence officials discovered that the Argentines had been planning the operation in strict secrecy for two months.) With the information came a British request for U.S. intercession to prevent the crisis. Secretary of State Haig immediately called in Argentine Ambassador to Washington Esteban Arpad Takacs and sent messages to Argentina's President Galtieri through the U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires, Harry Schlaudemann. When those advances were rejected, President Reagan was asked to intervene...