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...campus-wide” event; Sing-Along nights, though creative, do not have the broad appeal Undergraduate Council (UC) Movie Nights once did; and while “Pimp Yo’ Stein Club” was fun, the CEB was not created to supplant House Committees. Using the CEB’s money to hold small scale or House-based events does nothing to further the creation of Harvard undergraduate identity. The lack of an undergraduate identity ranks as one of the biggest problems that Harvard College faces today, and campus-wide events directly help combat this problem...
...campy 1950 movie classic All About Eve, a dewy young understudy insinuates herself into the social circle of a great but aging actress. As the older performer, played unforgettably by Bette Davis, begins to realize what's up - that the ingenue's real goal is to supplant her on the stage - she issues a raspy warning that has become one of the immortal lines in film: "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night...
Kinsley is right to defend partisanship, but he misses the higher ground. In U.S. politics, the winner takes all, ideologues and hacks supplant statesmen, and reputation and access can be bought. One needs to look no further than lobbyist-lined K Street to understand...
...risk and on reputation. And when you're under Chapter 7 you are a financial risk and you're a reputational risk. Now, China may decide to go outside of that, but it's hard to imagine that that is a relationships that is going to be sufficient to supplant the need for investment in capital from the rest of the world...
...European Union officials tell TIME that Madame Rajavi is celebrating prematurely, because they have no intention of taking the MEK off the terror list, despite the growing number of European Parliamentarians who view the group as a force that could somehow supplant the mullahs' regime. "The next list will come out in early 2007, and we're going to comply with the court and publicly state the reasons for any group or individual on it," says Jesus Carmona, spokesman for the European Union's anti-terrorism authority. "But it wasn't an arbitrary decision to put this group on that...