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"Spore", Will Wright's newest title, has once again redefined the limits of video games by combining Sim City's build-and-grow mentality with the infinite customization of The Sims to create what is possibly the most grandiose and dynamic sandbox ever conceived.
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An NBC news poll released last week found that nearly 70% of Americans are hopeful for the future under President-elect Barack Obama '91. While Obama's magnetic personality and President George W. Bush's historic unpopularity are undoubtedly factors in this wave of optimism amidst a sea of falling stock prices and global uncertainty, the hopefulness of Americans for Obama's term has another more fundamental basis: the hope for a polite politic.
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Justice Scalia reportedly acknowledged that originalism "is not perfect" as a theory of constitutional interpretation -- and this is surely true. But more than a theory of interpretation, Justice Scalia uses originalism as a cloak for a pro-corporate, rights-limited policy agenda. The proof is in his selective application of so-called originalism.
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During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama '91 promised that his administration would not do much hiring from the Ivy League. Yet it was no surprise to learn that the Obama transition team would be composed primarily of Harvard academics and alumni - and was poised to hire many more of them.
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When we imagine New York City today, do we envision what we wish New York to be or take pride in what the City, tragically reduced but eternally majestic, still is? As the years have passed since the shock of 9/11, trinket shops around Manhattan have grappled with how to portray their city to the volumes of tourists from across the country and around the world.
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What, pray Palin, was this? Faint whispers about 2012? Reports about where the Obamas were eating dinner last night? This was no way to keep Fenno looking as if he were attentively trying to keep his notes in tune with the professor's comments. Dammit, Fenno thought, this wasn't necessarily the Change I've Been Waiting For.
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"Are you worried about being able to have a satisfying career and family life?" asked Spela Trefalt in a forum sponsored by the Program on the Legal Profession. Professor Trefalt, who teaches at the Simmons School of Management in Boston, explained that a recent NYU study has shown that many students are worried.
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The impending end of the Bush presidency has hardly put an end to debates over the "clash of civilizations" thesis, and in few fields has the perception of a conflict between the West and Islam been perceived as more acute as in law. From England to India, the reconciliation of Islamic norms and customs to secular law has been a major point of contention.
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As global markets continued their precipitous decline, Harvard University, long known for its tight-lipped secrecy regarding finances, is facing an unprecedented decline in endowment returns and fundraising, President Drew Faust stated in a letter issued to the University community on Monday.
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Yale Professor Ian Ayers spoke in Austin Hall on Wednesday, warning researchers that statistical studies of disparate impact should avoid the inclusion of variables without a plausible justification. The central hypothesis of his presentation was that in a study of disparate impact the inclusion of control variables which are causal but inappropriate may lead to understatement of racial bias.
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Kerry Healey, former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and GOP candidate for Governor in 2006, reflected on her career in politics and last week's election at an event hosted by the HLS Republicans and the Abigail Adams Society. A self-proclaimed moderate, Healey spoke of the need to focus the party's message on economic issues rather than the social issues championed by evangelicals.
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Americans have to ask themselves at this point what could have happened to lead to such a crisis in a set of companies which are vital to the U.S. economy and which enjoyed record profits in the late 90's early part of this decade. Rising benefits costs for union workers and intense competition from foreign firms have been advanced as primary factors, but there are many voices crying that the entrenched powers in auto manufacturing have created their own dilemma by failing to exercise the foresight to design more fuel-efficient vehicles.