Word: making
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...credit card bill, this seems like the time to do it...Gladiator is being shown on IMAX screens in major cities across the country starting this week. Can there be too much of a good thing? The idea of that much bone-crunching action on a thirteen-story screen makes me queasy just thinking about it... Did you catch the live Madonna concert webcast on Tuesday night from London's Brixton Academy? What a blast! (You can catch reruns on http://www.msn.co.uk/madonna)... Two proactive students are starting the Backstreet Boys Fan Alliance at Harvard. Future events include a protest...
...rather get away for the weekend to a land of hilarity, fantasy and adventure-otherwise known as England, at least in the hands of Gilbert and Sullivan-then make your way to the Agassiz Theater for the Gilbert and Sullivan Players' latest production: The Pirates of Penzance. Perhaps the most famous operetta of all time, Pirates has it all-swash bucklers, police, pretty maidens and, of course, the very model of a modern major general. Tickets are going fast, so hurry soon to Radcliffe Yard...
...Georges Depardiue as he is transported to a nameless place where he meets two copies of both himself and his girlfriend from parallel dimensions. And the absurdity only begins there. But beneath the surface, this "farce with a brain" probes deeper issues of the media and identity. So make your way to the Adams Pool Theater for laughter and thought all at once...
...morality do sometimes overlap, but mostly, the law is an arbitrary set of rules that tries, however imperfectly and even nobly, to make sense of human behavior. The law, as Aaron Burr (who was not a notable upholder of it) once said, is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained...
...same time, I find the Republican argument that the courts are making law rather than interpreting it to be specious. What do you do when you're confronted with incompetent lawmakers and a legislature like Florida's that enacts imprecise and contradictory laws? You can't just throw up your hands and walk away. The court's job is to try to make sense out of statutes that don't always make sense...