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...basic privileges and bar up all our windows or give us a 1 a.m. curfew. And what of Harvard-owned faculty housing—are the beautiful professors’ houses near the quad going to have fire bans as well? After all, our professors can be just as absent minded as we can be. Perhaps even more...
...sudden concern to set the record straight. Because, as Vice President Dick Cheney put it on Sunday, "it's not surprising that people make that connection." Indeed, although the Bush administration never actually claimed that Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the 9/11 attacks, those attacks were seldom absent from the prewar speeches of administration officials making the case for an invasion. Critics of the administration maintain that the White House's own prewar rhetoric encouraged the misconception, and certainly did little to discourage it. Indeed, when he proclaimed victory over Saddam on May 1, President Bush said, "The battle...
...instead of driving the baby to child care, went to work—unwittingly leaving the baby to die in the car—is symptomatic of something far more common at Harvard and beyond. It is the result of mindlessness, an affliction not confined to the proverbial absent-minded professor who has more important things to think about. It is hard to imagine that for him, an apparently loving father, there was anything more important than...
...prosecutor was absent from court...
Whether it's with Lopez or Stefani, a celebrity association seems to provide a sense of familiarity in a cyberspeed, anonymous world where family is often far flung and community absent. Companies that capitalize on this through co-branding get instant emotional attachment and hipness by association. Companies that don't take that step run the risk of being perceived as pop-cultural outcasts...