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Seeing Linklater’s name, along with those of the Independent Film Channel and Thousand Words, juxtaposed with the word “animation” is indeed double-take material. But the animation of Waking Life is not Disney’s animation, nor anyone else’s for that matter. It is the next step in the evolution of animation...
Part of the problem is that the songs and cheers of the Band seem pretty irrelevant to the average Harvard student. Yes, we’re at football games, but few students know the words to Ten Thousand Men of Harvard. Does this actually mean that most Harvard undergraduates have no school spirit? Or is it simply that they aren’t comfortable expressing it in song? It’s no longer very common to show affection for Harvard through enthusiasm for the football team. It is more common to bemoan the lack of outward signs of pride...
...impossible to wage war from the air without killing civilians. The term "precision-guided" is relative when describing 500lb projectiles dropped from a few thousand feet at small or moving targets. When bombs do go astray, they can just as easily destroy schools and hospitals as tanks and command centers. Pentagon planners have long ago learned to accept this as an unavoidable by-product of any air campaign - hence the military's anesthetic term for it, "collateral damage...
...teenagers from as far away as Karachi are flocking to join the fight against America. "Why do you want to enter this hell?" warned a Taliban soldier at a roadblock. Who knows? Because of religious conviction? Because it's home? Or because, like young men before them for a thousand years, the youths felt, at the prospect of war, a summoning up of the blood. There'll be plenty of that before we're through...
...thousand false alarms from an anxious nation are an exquisite diversion for those intent on mayhem; the police cannot be everywhere at once, and there is only so much they can do to button down the cities. Overworked cops who had already been on high alert worked even harder as the frightened calls poured in. "We are at risk of being overwhelmed," says a spokesman for the Kentucky division of emergency management. There are metal detectors at the Liberty Bell; Denver canceled its New Year's Eve celebrations; Ohio called off a corn-husking festival. In Washington, where lawmakers...