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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Without this information, the online voting program was unable to sort votes by district...
...straight-man' of the movie. Vig is played by Spike Jonze, known not for his acting but for his directing--of music videos, for the Beastie Boys and Bjork, among others. Jonze's performance is one of the highlights of the film. He portrays Vig with a sort of unstudied exuberance, post-adolescent can-do hyperactivity, and is earnestly naive without a trace of self-parody. He delivers lines that may be almost trite in their ignorance--for example, when he asks an Iraqi rebel leader, "So, you guys think all Americans are Satan, right?" without betraying anything more improprietary...
...criticism. It wasn't narcissism but selflessness--in the most authentic sense of the term, the vanishing of the self--that led Thoreau to tell us about his life in the woods: it was his conviction that individual choices possess some kind of cosmic exemplary significance. Walden is a sort of spiritual biography of man in Nature, told through Thoreau's experience in the woods. The notion is that experience is transcendent of the personal, and indexes the general...
...This is a sort of a slap in the face. This is this the way Harvard says thanks," he said. "I don't think the University realizes what it's lost...
...When I first thought about teaching this course [two years ago], a friend said to me, 'all the issues of religion in the schools were settled half a century ago, to which my answer is sort of 'hah!'" Fraser says...