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...Teddy found a way to go forward. "I took the Isthmus," he later explained, "started the canal and then left Congress--not to debate the canal, but to debate me." He added dryly, "But while the debate goes on, the canal does too." No one would ever have to wonder what he meant when he said, "While President, I have been President--emphatically...
Harvard University will increase its aid for childcare services by $7.5 million in an attempt to boost the number of females among the senior faculty, according to a report released June 13 by the Senior Vice-Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Evelynn M. Hammonds, but some professors wonder whether the attempts to improve childcare fully address the problems faced by female faculty members...
...bury them. Duelist tries both. It is simultaneously an evocation and an interment of the martial arts film. Lee?s cunning management of crowds and his spectacular use of camera and setting lend to this live-action film the aesthetics of anime. At times the film stops in wonder at its own devices. Which is a shame, since Duelist is so smart and pretty, it doesn?t to tell us how much it admires itself. The movie?s preening is demeaning...
...make my appointment for a rejuvenation treatment at a Hong Kong men's skincare center, figuring I can undo 27 years of neglect in about two hours. Upon my arrival, the receptionist hands me a glass of lemonade (I wonder briefly if I am meant to splash it on my face) and a detailed questionnaire about my skin type. Surprisingly, "dull and pasty" isn't an option, but I fill out the rest. Do I have oily skin? Check-during adolescence my forehead was practically a member of OPEC. Enlarged pores? You bet-I've named some of them after...
...There may well be parents who are reluctant to give their nine-year-old in pigtails a vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease, that the very idea makes them incomfortable. But you have to wonder. It's not just that most nine-year-old girls don't know what a cervix is. Or that most doctors won't declare, as they administer the vaccine, "There! Now when you go out and have promiscuous, unprotected intercourse with strangers, at least there is one less sexually transmitted disease to worry about...