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Soon the room is abuzz, with people standing up and complaining...
...said, were acquiring a new understanding of freedom's cost in duty and sacrifice. He acknowledged that the soldiers he was sending into battle were not just warriors but daddies; and he was sending them to fight a suicidal enemy in a country that was a garden of mines, abuzz with old U.S. Stinger missiles waiting to bring down a helicopter. No one expected them all to come home alive. But hardly anyone said not to send them...
...says advertising has lost its impact? Media folks and moralists are all abuzz this week after NBC's decision to reintroduce liquor ads during last Saturday's airing of "Saturday Night Live." Citing a deteriorating advertising market, Peacock Network execs are reversing a 50-year-old voluntary ban on television commercials hawking hard alcohol. NBC's choice, the moral authorities among us believe, is a terrible and inevitable symptom of our decaying societal fabric. "The decision by NBC to accept advertising for liquor is shockingly irresponsible and should be reversed immediately," says Dr. J. Edward Hill, chair-elect...
...other words, watching JAG was like signing up for a permanent hitch in the Square Force. But now, suddenly, American flags are stitched into the logos of news broadcasts and the nation is abuzz about, of all things, the military justice system. As creator and executive producer Don Bellisario likes to say, "JAG didn't find its patriotism on Sept. 11." But America's renewed national pride has evidently found JAG. Ratings for the show, once known for appealing mainly to older viewers steeped in old-timey values, are up 39% this fall among 18-to-49-year-olds...
Since Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 issued a report earlier this year calling attention to overcrowding in the Houses, the Harvard campus has been abuzz with discussion about how to free up extra student living space. This summer, the kitchens will be removed from Pforzheimer’s Wolbach building to make room for more student bedrooms. The administration’s recent push to increase study abroad options is undoubtedly related to the overcrowding problem as well. And some have even suggested cutting the number of resident tutors living in Houses...