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...only to upend them. Alas, this flash of wit is just another tease. Natasha is soon killed in an alley by unseen flying beasts. Too bad, since Kurylenko is the one watchable woman in Max Payne, and Mila Kunis, the ostensible tough-girl lead, is not up to the task. She has only a pout where her sexual swagger should be, and she doesn't meet the action-movie rule that a mysterious villainess-heroine should be at least as tall as a runway model (which Kurylenko...
...Utah OpenCourseWareAlliance, a collaboration of seven universities in Utah offering 145 courses in total, became the first open courseware system publicly funded by the state. In spring of 2007, Stanford University established a task force, Stanford Open Education Initiative, to explore open education options. And the trend is not limited to only these schools: many institutions across the world have followed suit and created similar programs, furthering educational opportunities...
...With less than three weeks to go before Election Day, the Republican presidential nominee faces a daunting overall task. He is so far behind in the national polls and in most key individual states that it is difficult to assemble a single combination of Electoral College votes to get him to the necessary 270. Despite Monday's unprecedented stock market rebound and Tuesday's campaign announcement introducing a new McCain economic policy proposal, voters largely continue to blame the Republicans for the financial crisis and the gloomy mood of an unstable nation. At the same time, the impact of Obama...
...Dingman chose to hash out the details with a committee, though some selected were unfit in act and temperament for so delicate a task. Among them was J. Lorand Matory ’83, professor of anthropology, who, during the time on the committee, complained that he and other partisans of Palestine were, in his words, being persecuted by “a moneyed and media-connected American Israeli Defense Force…agile with the pen and the campaign donation...
...true reconciliation would have to include these groups, as well as the Taliban leadership, and that is an almost inconceivable task. "The West tends to imagine a rather more coherent organization than the Taliban really is," says Joanna Nathan, Afghanistan analyst for the International Crisis Group. "They imagine there is a single element of control over a wider organization. This view that it is somehow going to be Mullah Omar sitting at one end of the table while President Karzai sits at the other as they sign a power-sharing agreement and we can all go home - that...