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...Sensitive souls whack Medusa? That's the thing. I look at people like Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson. They had humor and romance and vulnerability in their action movies. That's what I have striven...
What is, then, an offense worthy of reprimand for today’s congressional Democrats? Ask Rep. Alan Grayson ’78. The freshman Florida congressman has striven to inject a strong sense of morality into the health-care debate and other floor fights. He famously characterized the Republican approach to health care as “don’t get sick, and if you get sick, die quickly,” and has continually used his floor speeches to highlight the deaths that result from America’s lack of national health insurance...
...eschew the simplicity of Wikipedia is also to risk losing a reader in the midst of haphazard associations and esoteric mentions of related events and figures. “Literary History” has admirable intentions; it has striven to narrate a portion of America’s literary history by concentrating on the rigorous analysis of facts, while still keeping readers engaged...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard College has striven over the past four years to impart on us a breadth and depth of knowledge that few institutions of higher learning could rival. From freshman seminars to sophomore tutorials to senior theses, we have all worked incredibly hard in our own fields, reading, writing, doing problem sets, and pouring blood, sweat, and tears into our academic experience. We have also taken what amounts essentially to distribution requirements (as dirty as the phrase might be) in other disciplines, learning how magical numbers can be or how the dinosaurs lived. However, while...
...clouds of smoke rising over Gaza only from a distance," Klein says. Meanwhile, Hamad worked his contacts on the Palestinian side for insight into how the Palestinian leadership views the crisis. "Impartiality is a dream," Hamad says, "but honesty is a duty." It's one we have always striven to meet...