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...other Carrey movies, the star needed magical or divine intervention to change his ways: a boy's wish that his dad will tell the truth for 24 hours in Liar Liar and, in Bruce Almighty, God's command that he try being omnipotent in order to learn how tough it is to be in charge of the universe. This time it's just an excitable friend (John Michael Higgins) who drags Carl to one of those personal-help messiahs who pock the California mindscape. The word from this shock-haired swami (Terence Stamp) is "Yes." By saying yes to every...
...this fall that the university ought to bring ROTC back to campus, a move some students said would help the school live up to its motto: "For God, For Country, and For Yale." While many of the objections are based on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays, op-eds and letters to the editor in the Yale Daily News - which endorsed the idea - argued that allowing ROTC back would encourage debate over the policy, rather than indicate an endorsement of it. At Harvard, meanwhile, where students can participate in the ROTC program at neighboring...
...others to do that work, I don't think that's as effective as saying, 'OK, we're going to put Columbia students who do have progressive values into the military and change it both from the inside and from the outside,'" he says. "'Don't ask, don't tell' is only a symptom of a larger issue, which is a lack of engagement with the military...
...serious harm is mitigated. Another issue is simple miscommunication - police officers may use Tasers on those suffering from medical or mental conditions when no danger is actually being presented to the officer. The reports weaves a web of unnecessary deaths. There appears to be no definitive way to tell if Tasers caused them all, but the sheer number says something. Little appears to have changed, though. Expect another report - and more reported fatalities - next year...
...been fortunate to go to some of the top schools in America...but I can tell you, without a doubt, that some of the best lessons I've learned in life are from playing basketball on Chicago's inner-city playgrounds. There's nothing like it." - on what the 6-foot-5-inch Duncan has learned playing basketball at venues all around his hometown, Chicago Tribune, July...