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Shell says you will never find Obama posing for the camera. "He doesn't care what his hair looks like," she says. "He doesn't care that he has big ears." For the record, so does she--a topic they like to kid each other about. Amid the hurly-burly of the campaign, Callie's images manage to find those rare moments of stillness...
...Courses of Instruction looking for classes whose descriptions were sympathetic to their own interests, perhaps checking afterwards the reviews of prior enrollees. Poor rubes! In this streamlined age, the process is inverted: first, come to the table with a number in mind; afterwards, you can bother with the actual topic and content of the course. The cluttered old catalog, with its idiosyncratic and long-winded descriptive paragraphs following the course titles, has been rendered obsolete by crisp tables of course titles each followed by a chain of 10 numbers. Nowadays, that’s all you need.Students have no doubt...
...While the War on Terror has proven to be a politically controversial topic, one goal that both sides of the aisle should share is the preservation of our service members’ lives. Simple solutions to our military’s current problems, such as better lubricant oil and the HK416, have the potential not only to make our soldiers safer and more effective, but even save us money in the long run. Although military technology will never prevent the loss of life entirely, purchasing better equipment could make it more likely that any future wartime sacrifice would be paid...
...France last May to conservative rival Nicolas Sarkozy, will be at Harvard in time for “Super Tuesday,” when presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be competing in over 20 states for the nomination of the Democratic Party. “I suspect that the topic of Hillary Clinton will come up, and [Royal’s] insights into American and French politics and what differences or similarities exist will be instructive,” said Patricia H. Craig, the executive director for the Center for European Studies (CES). Royal, who will be visiting through...
...better salesman than I am," Bill Clinton said, smiled, then paused as chuckles rippled through the audience. A better salesman? On what planet? This was classic, postpresidential Clinton, able to riff on his well-earned reputation as a mythic slinger of bullpucky. I should add that the topic in question was nuclear nonproliferation. He had the audience hanging on his every word about ... nuclear nonproliferation. The Bush Administration wanted to develop two new nuclear weapons, he said, while it was trying to persuade the Iranians to stop enriching uranium. "There may be a better salesman than I am," he said...