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...meet the enemy long-range bombs have already burned them to various grotesque crisps. Tony (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his buddy, Troy (a wonderfully cool, emotionally hidden Peter Sarsgaard), who are snipers, come close to actually doing something-killing a pair of Iraqi officers holed up in an airfield control tower-but at the last moment one of their own senior officer swans in and countermands the orders. In short, Swofford and his unit have nothing to show for the half year they spend in the eye of Desert Storm...
...classes to include only those with few exams, optional sections, taped lectures, and the possibility of submitting assignments online, could fulfill almost all of Harvard’s official requirements from Istanbul or Azerbaijan just as well as they could while never leaving his single in the Mather tower. What do we make of our notion of “university” when we have an institution whose institutional functions are no longer geographically localized? There’s no question that there’s an enormous benefit to being on campus—it allows students...
...spaces in the upperclass Houses. These “Super Parties,” which are “thrown in large party suites and spaces or parties thrown in three or more normal living areas,” such as the Currier Ten Man suite, the Lowell Bell Tower, and Eliot’s Ground Zero, will receive $200 reimbursements for hosting a party instead of the typical $100 party grant The UC has compiled a list of these large-scale party spaces, but students may apply to have their rooms added to this pre-approved list. And while...
...putting out their own CDs and cassettes. Starbucks' Blending the Blues sold some 50,000 CDs in two months, and five classical recordings for Victoria's Secret have sold more than 1 million copies each. The big buyers are baby boomers turned off by music stores. Maybe Virgin and Tower ought to offer cafe lattes and lingerie...
...However, due to the strict enforcement of censorship in Elizabethan England, Shakespeare could not make overt comparisons to the government. After all, the English court was a patron of his theater company. At the time, authors were sent to the gallows at Tyburn or starved to death in the Tower of London just for subtly criticizing the Queen. Meanwhile, Shakespeare faced an increase in the number of rival theater companies—giving new meaning to the statement, by Jacques in “As You Like It,” that “all the world?...