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...very different process from literary analysis, but valuable in its own right nonetheless. More importantly, these creative forms reflect unique ways of understanding and portraying humanity, so directly studying different forms of portrayals is as, if not more, important than learning the skills needed to analyze them.Such a scheme will not be hard to implement; in fact, it already exists at the College. For all its faults, the current Core Curriculum casts a sharp and sensible distinction between the Literature and Arts A and B categories. Literature and Arts A courses are concerned with the analysis of literary texts, while...
...committee assignment? That's the question at the heart of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors, who are examining whether Rep. Jane Harman of California and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) may have violated the law in a scheme to get Harman reappointed as the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, according to knowledgeable sources in and out of the U.S. government...
...Bordeaux - are now close to an agreement to combine into one single expanded Côtes de Bordeaux. The measures only go so far: they still leave 17,000 different Bordeaux wine labels, and only a few hundred producers to date have signed up for the scheme to be paid to get out of the business altogether. As part of its measures, the civb agreed to supplement the subsidies for distillation, a move that is furiously contested by some, including Delpeuch, who argues that it makes no sense to encourage bad wine to be made in the first place...
...threat? An ex-cop (Noah Emmerich) has no doubt on that point and is devoting his many idle days to harassing him. Fair warning: don't succumb too quickly to sympathy or antipathy for any of the characters. They are each a trickier part of this movie's complex scheme than they at first seem...
...Journal reporter. This official says that Ahmad Omar Saed Sheik insisted under interrogation that taking Pearl's life was not at first part of the kidnap plot - though Sheik also told his questioners that Pearl's kidnappers could never have released him because he was Jewish. But as the scheme unfolded, someone senior to him in the al-Qaeda hierarchy, known as "the fat man," took control of the operation and beheade Pearl...