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...bright dawn of the movies' digital age, but the Hollywood establishment still has its shades drawn. In the Oscar show at the Kodak Theatre (named after a company that is crucially invested in the film-stock status quo), the most popular live-action digital movie in history, George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, won no awards, not even one for technical achievement. The year's boldest, most innovative digital experiment, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City, got no nominations...
...irrational trashing of “Elena posters” by students demonstrates once again the wisdom of Harvard Right to Life’s developing-baby poster campaigns. Those who favor legalized abortion often try to distract the abortion debate by agnostically temporizing about the status of the fetus and instead focusing solely on the social and economic situation of the mother. With this distraction in place, most people can tune out the abortion debate most of the time. This supposedly agnostic position is dishonest—the one-cell product of a human egg and a human sperm...
...affirmation of my faith in internationalism. In this belief, I am not blinded by my own idealism. The Games are not perfect. Since their original incarnation in Ancient Greece, there have been athletes who cheated for the sake of a token or who exploited their superstar status. There will always be those who resort to such methods, and it does not take technology or modernity. The Games continue to occur because the people devoted to the ideals of fair play and athleticism, such as Baron de Coubertin, have maintained a strong, optimistic position against such negativism. I also wonder what...
...care of her surviving husband—regardless of his race—than a white woman’s family. The study was conducted using the Medicare claims database, a widely used resource for sociologists. Elwert was able to control for health history as well as age, poverty status, and residential context. He chose to focus on elderly couples because 74 percent of Americans die after the age of 65, and most earlier studies of the widowhood effect have focused on younger couples. Elwert said he intends to continue his research on race and the widowhood effect by looking...
Upset-minded Harvard, for its part, is unfazed by the status of its opponent...