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...returns on CNN. Judging from this turnout, house living rooms will surely be filled on election night. And instead of Harvard students watching these events alone in their rooms, or with their rooming groups, they will do it along side dozens of their housemates, thus further contributing to the ideal of house community which is so elusive in so many of our dorms...
...there you go: Concentrating in film studies is an ideal way of becoming a citizen of the world because you never risk forgetting that there are important barriers to your achievement of that citizenship. There is no easy cosmopolitanism. Film studies allows you to discover precisely what the barriers are and exactly how they can be overcome. It challenges you to explore both what happens when the barriers fall away (the HFA’s upcoming visit by Tsai Ming-liang, for example) and what forms of greatness are possible because of them (in, say, the best Hollywood Westerns...
...number of traffic deaths among the major Asian countries, as reflected in the chart with your article. Why is this so? Singapore's small land area allows efficient administration, and its hefty traffic fines and extensive use of cameras to catch speeders act as deterrents to fast driving. An ideal traffic environment, however, is one that relies mainly on the conscientiousness of the drivers, as opposed to one that is governed by deterrents. Creating a caring and conscientious society of road users will require dedication and persistence. Joel Kan Singapore...
Eating right and exercising are the ideal prescriptions for weight loss, and experts agree they're also the best way to prevent heart disease. So it came as a shock last week to learn that Clinton, 58, had been admitted to New York--Presbyterian Hospital after complaining of mild chest pain and shortness of breath, and was put on the fast track for quadruple-bypass surgery. Four of the arteries supplying blood to his heart muscles were so clogged that doctors would have to raid vessels from elsewhere in his body to funnel blood around them...
...this war is that some of the most harrowing terrorist acts being carried out in the name of Islam are taking place in a country the U.S. had hoped to transform into a model of secular democracy in the Middle East. The chances that Iraq will resemble that ideal soon are all but gone. The danger now is that control could slip into the hands of jihadists--as parts of the so-called Sunni triangle already have--intent on establishing their own fundamentalist regime that could become a breeding ground for terrorists. That gloomy prospect means there will...