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...Presidents have the freedom to pick their wars and fight them as they choose, without worrying about setting off a thermonuclear war. The U.S. could go into Somalia and Haiti knowing it would never involve 500,000 troops for years, because the final outcome in those countries is not vital to America's national interests--we do not believe we are in a long twilight struggle with Somali warlords. The U.S. can also decide to pull its forces out on a fixed schedule without worrying about losing credibility or toppling dominoes...
...Acceptability Factor is Harvard Dining Services' oh-so-scientific attempt to answer the vital question: What percentage of students who walk into the dining hall will actually end up taking a single portion of this dish? With the most scrumptious dishes, students will often take more than a single portion or occasionally even stuff themselves silly with "seconds" or (date we say) "thirds." That's why the numbers for the tastiest entrees are greater than...
With so many key matches looming on the horizon, maintaining team focus is vital...
These silent scenes are aided by another risky innovation, the use of a blues band (made up of Jeremy Greene, Olgun Guvench, Andy Cowan, and Rabih Shansiry) to provide a continuous accompaniment to the play. The music, composed by Greene, is vital to the modulation of emotion in these scenes, from anxiety to mystery to fury. Amazingly, even in the small space, the band never becomes intrusive and never competes with the actors for attention, a feat rarely achieved even in student productions of musicals and operas...
...nursemaid to Jefferson than a believably sexual being. It's hard to see what he saw in either of them, and the script does not provide any fully developed scenes of dramatic conflict between them. Even Jefferson's endless intellectual curiosity is seen more as an eccentricity than a vital force--like his sexuality, muted and eventually strangled in fastidious gentility...