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...Forgotten Allies No one would wish to devalue the sacrifice of Canada's soldiers in Afghanistan, but Samantha Power's statement [April 28] that "Canada occupies the fighting tier, alongside the U.S. Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands" is disappointingly incomplete. It might interest Power to learn that Australia has almost a thousand troops on the ground in Afghanistan, 350 dedicated to the reconstruction effort, but at least 400 more on operational duties, which puts them very much in the fighting tier. Anthony Connell, Sydney...
...Alford’s dressing assistant, rushes both of us to the entrance of the runway, thrusting a bracelet into my hand. She instructs me to fit the loopy, gold accessory onto Alford’s wrist. We’re moments away from the first scene. I wish her luck, but it’s too late. She can’t hear me. Alford is too busy encouraging her fellow models before the opening sequence in which she will figure prominently. “Ya’ll are superstars, you look beautiful,” I hear...
...When it comes down to it, anything that’s powerful enough to remind us of the world outside of Harvard’s appetite-suppressing gates is worth its T fare 20 times over. So now that summer is practically here, keep traveling and keep eating. I wish you many of those moments when you have to close your eyes between bites, wherever they may happen.––Columnist Rebecca A. Cooper can be reached at cooper3@fas.harvard.edu...
...know exactly what I wanted to do, and law school seemed like the place to go if you don’t know that,” he continues.He had spent years treating music as a release and consciously shirking the fundamentals. “I wish I were 10 percent as focused and studious with music as I was as a student at the university,” he says.” I have a lot of conditioning against that.”Little by little, discipline has crept into his music. When he decided to pursue music...
...doing it better. The Tina Fey and Amy Poehler vehicle “Baby Mama” grossed an estimated $18.3 million dollars this past weekend, coming in at number one. While the movie is certainly the story of a woman reconciling a career and her age with her wish for a family, it seems to be far less concerned with femininity’s comedic potential than Apatow’s films are with exploiting the humor in the positively unimpressive masculinity of his male characters.While there’s nothing wrong with guys making movies for guys about...