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...completely hashed out by elected officials. This Wednesday the court will hear arguments on two right-to-die cases, Vacco v. Quill and Washington v. Glucksberg. If they wish to, the Justices can take the opportunity, as suggested by assisted-suicide proponent Timothy Quill, to "establish landmarks" for tackling the controversy. Or, perhaps more prudently, they will find a way to fudge...
...pretty, vigorous, thoughtful, this Hamlet expands the story with helpful flashbacks; Yorick, Priam, Old Norway come alive as if from a vivid history book. The full version restores Shakespeare's emphasis on court politics, with whispers of intrigue that establish Hamlet and Laertes as potential usurpers of Claudius' throne, and massed armies behind Hamlet. Here he might be a Henry V who's gone just this side of bonkers...
...hand, it’d be a donation, which is allowed, but on the other hand, it would bring the company to campus. It’s unclear whether there’s a difference between this kind of arrangement and the one JetBlue has tried to establish with Friedman and Vandenberg. After all, if the University was really worried about commercialization, it would try to regulate sponsorships across the board. As it stands, there is no obvious guiding principle behind the limitations placed on Friedman and Vandenberg. And as long as there’s a way around those...
...shame, however, that The Rock—who is doubtless trying to establish legitimacy as an actor—had to appear in this movie after his really funny and entertaining performance in “The Rundown” two years...
Concepts of imperialism and empire are “in flat contradiction to the traditional political self-definition of the U.S.A.,” Hobsbawm said, however, “there is no precedent for the global supremacy that the U.S. government is trying to establish...