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That playing field can change again, and probably will. On 24, there are a few very good people, a few very bad ones and in between, a lot of question marks who can upend the plot (and the political analogies). That may be the biggest lesson of 24 in the Iraq era: don't stubbornly hang on to your preconceptions when the facts on the ground change. Undoubtedly, Bauer will continue to give liberals and libertarians conniptions before his latest day is over. But if conservatives and neocons think 24 is working for them, they don't know Jack...
Rust? What rust?Coming off a 17-day hiatus, the Harvard men’s hockey team netted three consecutive goals and held off a Dartmouth charge to upend the No. 19 Big Green, 3-2, Saturday night at the Bright Hockey Center.Long touted as a goalscorer, junior winger Mike Taylor had a career night, skating with the top power-play unit and registering his first multi-goal game for the Crimson (4-9-0, 3-7-0 ECAC) with man-advantage scores in the first and second periods.“I’ve always been taught...
...bullying local officials are murdered. Since Chen and Wu first reported on the problem, China's government has taken steps to reform rural taxation. But with violent protests now commonplace, the anger of the country's peasants may yet form a wave big enough to destabilize, if not upend, China's economic miracle. -By Peter Ritter...
...year-old bones of 3.5-ft-tall people with grapefruit-sized brains and announced in Nature two years ago that they were the remains of a previously unknown, hobbit-like species of human: Homo floresiensis. The finding made the cover of National Geographic and threatened to upend the history of human evolution. It seemed for a moment as if any legend could be true...
...that later. By now you will have begun to understand that Nouvel's buildings can be hard to pin down. His name is one variant of the French word for new, and he does his best to live up to it. He likes to upend old notions of inside and out, solid and porous, to say nothing of where windows should be or how comfortable you should feel about standing on one over an 18-m drop.[an error occurred while processing this directive] What Nouvel is doing with his arms over his head is making a little joke about...