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...clear and drastic benefits of this new system vis-à-vis the Core make its timely implementation of the utmost importance. Both current and prospective students want to know that they are coming to Harvard to get the best education in the world. If that is to be the case, the new system should be implemented as soon as possible...
...independent auditor in June. But the board dismissed multiple efforts on the part of Coke to exonerate itself with its own sponsored studies. One of these, conducted by the Central Science Laboratory, a respected food-safety lab, showed Coke’s bottled drinks conformed to international safety norms vis-à-vis pesticides. Another, conducted by Cal Safety Compliance Commission, one of the largest compliance investigators in the U.S., found no evidence of labor violations at Coke’s plants in Columbia. Granted, both of these studies were paid for by Coca-Cola (and the Cal Safety study...
...lived together. We called them our cousins. It is a part of our tradition. RABIN: The historic breakthrough was not now. It was when President Sadat, the leader of the largest Arab country, came to Jerusalem and succeeded in bringing down all the walls of suspicion, hatred, prejudices vis-a-vis Egypt. Arafat is not in a position to do it because he is not in control of the people in the territories. His influence is limited to the members of his organization. Because of that we need minimum security assurances. Still, I believe that we have passed the point...
...good college career, R. Kelly is the only true prophet for the student who embraces all aspects of campus life. He is the guiding light for the sinning scholar who travels from the Kong to Lamont in the twilight hours, hoping to purge the pecadillos of Saturday night vis-à-vis a sick study session. Because when it comes down to it, each of us is not just “one thing.” You don’t need to know how to “read and write” to understand that fundamental nature...
Perhaps this scene is the director’s acknowledgement of the film’s theatrical origin and his attempt to incorporate images of the stage into film’s visual idiom vis-à-vis postmodern notions of meta-narrativity...