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...delighted my Harvard friends would be who constantly lamented our lack of a “Great Books” system of education! While I wonder whether this system can be intellectually defended, my advisor, who gives an informative survey of modern political thought, simply admits to his students that the story he is telling is just a fiction spun for pedagogical, pragmatic purposes He believes that undergraduate education is made of such compromises...
...significantly fattened his military arsenal in recent years, and tensions have rarely been this high between their countries. Nor are they alone on the Latin street when it comes to martial upgrading: Brazil's 2008 federal budget, for example, includes a 53% increase in military spending, leading many to wonder if Latin America is undergoing an arms race not seen since the heyday of military rule across the continent. But that doesn't mean that either Chavez or Uribe can afford an armed conflict...
...open space has been filled with a breathy “sexy sexy sexy” or “wooh.” With lines such as “Got you feeling all hypnotized / Got a body like a CL5,” this single makes you wonder whether Miss Jackson has been watching too many Björk videos. The next track, “LUV,” features catchy melodies over a light dance beat. With the combined efforts of no fewer than five producers, this track hides Jackson’s voice almost...
...movie as a whole. It accurately describes both. “Semi-Pro” charts the fortunes of the Flint Tropics, the worst team in the American Basketball Association (ABA). Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, the player/coach/owner of the Tropics and former singer of the one-hit-wonder, “Love Me Sexy.” After a merger is announced between the ABA and the National Basketball Association, Moon realizes that his team must be one of the top three ABA teams to stay in the league. Given that most of the team can’t even...
...with fingers moving ridiculously fast. From what I could tell, it looked like a new video was being added about every two hours.Though the game is fun and quite addictive—the number of “experts” is ever-growing—I wonder what would happen if these YouTubers were handed actual guitars. The reality is that the majority wouldn’t know the first thing about notes, strings, frets, or even how to hold a pick. With public funding for music education always decreasing, maybe people have just forgotten that...