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...conflict is especially hard to swallow given the fact that the Cornell game is one of the few sporting events of the year where the student body does a really good job of filling the seats. We Harvard students can be an apathetic crowd; we’ll go to Harvard-Yale, and we’ll be there for truly special events such as the night game against Brown, but other than that, it’s hard to get us to make the trek across the river. The way it turned out this year...
...reminded parents of this important recourse, telling them to “just go to the emergency room” if their child becomes deathly ill. Never mind that the typical emergency room visit costs several times more than a typical visit for preventive care, and hospitals that must swallow unpaid bills pass them along to paying customers. The President must have known this when early last month he vetoed an expansion of federal insurance for children...
...step behind Bardem, hoping to protect Brolin from the unstoppable evil. Jones provides a psychological grounding point, a man who has seen more years of bloodshed than any should, and is powerless to do anything but crack hollow jokes in the face of the tide that threatens to swallow him. Like any McCarthy novel, in the battle between good and evil, evil always has a leg up. With a pressurized cattle gun used to punch out equal parts of deadbolts and human gray matter, Bardem’s brand of evil has two legs and an arm up. The film...
...Honest and straightforward politicians are like medicine, trying to heal the various ailments of the nation by telling us what we really need to hear about ourselves and our country: the truth. But it can be a bitter pill to swallow, and when it comes time to vote, Americans are apparently not interested...
Hawking established his scientific reputation by discovering that black holes don't just swallow up the light, energy and matter around them, but also leak it all back out at an accelerating pace over billions of years. This leakage, known as Hawking Radiation, is what allows Eric to be rescued, particle by particle, from his black hole, and then reassembled so that he and George can face new cosmic challenges in the sequels...