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Fitting with this philosophy of the undergraduate’s vital role, the presenters also reiterated that proposals for an undergraduate student center in Allston are under serious consideration. Such a building has the potential to fuse together the broken shards of a fractured student population that yearns for unity, conviviality and common spaces for extracurricular pursuits. This page has called for the University to construct a student center since time immemorial. There is a desperate need for performance, practice and meeting space on campus, and a student center—if properly planned—will solve that problem...
...musician's musician. His deepest ardor is for the works of classic songwriters like Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers--the so-called Great American Songbook. In the annals of composition, he maintains, "these songs represent a new blueprint for a truly American style. They will always be vital and au courant, as timeless as Beethoven." Over the past few years, with his trio mates, Peter Washington on bass and Kenny Washington (no relation) on drums, Charlap has built on that blueprint in a succession of beguiling and acclaimed CDs on the Blue Note label. Written in the Stars...
...right. Team America is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good guy and everyone who goes against them are either evil or woefully misinformed. While, to many, such a theme may seem ironic, what makes this movie so pertinent and vital is the fact that this unthinking good-vs.-evil mentality may be more widespread than we’d like to believe. On the other hand, this movie also tells me that beating the hell out of puppets is funny...
...difficult to ascertain how widespread shadow banking is throughout China. Beijing University economist Shen Minggao estimates that two-thirds of all financial activity in Zhejiang takes place outside the formal banking system. Local regulators do nothing to discourage informal lending because it funnels capital to vital, fast-growing businesses. But national economic conditions could now make it more difficult to look the other way. For one thing, China's inflation rate has crept above 5% while interest on savings deposits remains about 2%. In other words, Chinese lose money when they park cash in legitimate banks. It now appears that...
...reluctantly but out of despair that the incompetence in Iraq was irreparable under President George W. Bush. At home, I was dismayed by the President's appalling fiscal record and by his catering to the most extreme elements of the religious right. I believed it was vital to hold him to account for his obvious failings. And the campaign helped do that. If it weren't for the last few months, Bush might still believe that he had conducted a flawless war and that the country was overwhelmingly behind him. After all, he gets all his information from...