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...papers take a break for Columbus Day. Harvard and Brown have a day off. Cornell is on vacation. The Dartmouth stretches the limits of a slow-news day. And the Yale Daily News' website says its outgoing editors were to publish their "Joke Issue" today, but in a tragic turn of events, it's not online! Hey, guys, why so shy? The DP publishes its joke issue for all the world...
...classicist, is also the unrivaled master of movie exposition. Nobody can get a movie going like him, and sustain it with camerabatics and an attention-deficit editing ethic. The problem with his films, if it is one, is that they often describe a degeneration based on repetition. His characters' tragic flaw is that their crimes are their obsessions; they become addicted to expressing the beast within themselves. This makes for explosive moments in an anti-dramatic trajectory, so his his films don't build, they simply accrue - and then collapse, like a runner exhausted at the end of a marathon...
After President Kennedy’s tragic assassination, his family dreamed of establishing a living memorial to his memory at Harvard. It would be a place where the worlds of politics and academia would meet, a place for undergraduates to pursue public service and thereby recapitulate President Kennedy’s transformative experience many times over...
...below the average and to find out that A) students are getting caught cheating and B) students are cheating in the first place makes me disgusted!” My father drafted a response and sent it to the student, explaining the circumstances of the incident and emphasizing the tragic ineptitude the boy had demonstrated in crafting his useless crib sheet. He concluded: “I am of the opinion that ultimate penalty should never be imposed for the first violation of any rule. Although discipline is important, a society that does not give people a second chance...
...Marshall Plan that saved countries like Italy from becoming communist states. Bolstering the economies of Muslim countries striving for democracy would have been a better response than exporting war. Maurizio Muraca Rome Five years after 9/11, our nation ought to be as united as it was on that tragic day. We should have held on to the outpouring of global goodwill and support we received then. We should have remained laser-focused on rooting out and bringing to justice those responsible for the attacks. We should have remained committed to making our homeland more secure. After 9/11 our nation should...