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...Samara, who looks, more than ever, like Cousin It from "The Addams Family." While the first film yawned its way through endless exposition, particularly in a subplot that attempted to explain Samara’s backstory, The Ring Two moves briskly along, losing momentum only in the final thrust as its expected pseudo-metaphysical, semi-Freudian conclusion begins to take shape...
John T.T. Dey ’08 said it was an opportunity for him to “put a face to” the legislators behind the social issues that have thrust Massachusetts into the spotlight...
...Saddam Hussein; I want to cooperate." Assad's words may be true in ways he never intended, however. He's nothing like Saddam, personally: An accident of history - the car accident that killed his older brother, who had long been groomed as their autocratic father's heir - thrust the then 38-year-old opthalmologist who had been living in genteel London into command of a regime grounded on a brutality that would be instantly recognizable to Saddam. Bashar's indecisive handling of the job has left the elite most involved in the regime deeply unhappy at his performance, while Syria...
...education, infrastructure, housing, nutrition and health care, especially in India's villages, where the bulk of poor Indians reside. Chidambaram, a Harvard-educated lawyer who is the stock market's favorite Finance Minister of all time, did not ignore the middle class: he cut and streamlined taxes. Yet the thrust of his budget was aimed at the poor. Among his new proposals: a plan to extend irrigation to 10 million hectares of agricultural land over five years?a move that could, theoretically, give employment to 10 million Indians in the countryside. Other measures include boosting rural employment, building 6 million...
...Professor of History Niall Ferguson has already labeled Elkins’ use of the term “wildly inappropriate,” and this criticism seems on-point. “Gulag” in Elkins’ mind appears to mean any camp system where detainees are thrust into a system of forced labor. This usage of “gulag” divorces the term from its uniquely Soviet context, where the police state’s totalitarian power was inexorably linked to that government’s policy of detention and murder...