Word: amateurness
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Commuters who wait at the Kendall Square T-stop have an aural distraction that is unlike amateur subway guitarists or the tunes emanating from their iPod earbuds. Since 1984, a contraption that melds high-culture art, physics, and the grime and tumult of Boston’s mass transit has amused and frustrated subway riders...
...importance of keeping a clean ship, a concept clearly lost on this year’s current contenders. Take Tom D. Hadfield ’08, for example, whose campaign manager told The Crimson on Monday, “I am a slave driver.” A less amateur candidate would recognize the obvious liabilities of employing a slave driver in a country where slavery was abolished more than 100 years ago. Perhaps Hadfield and his band of bigots should take their act to Dubai. Ryan A. Petersen ’08, on the other hand, has put together...
...needs to go beyond position papers and not just be a group of amateur lobbyists,” Goldenberg says...
...follows inhabitants of the Grand Valley Dani through the cycles of daily life as shaped by war and its repercussions. While the structure of the show may be didactic, Rockefeller’s images are so compelling that it’s hard to resist comparing this self-proclaimed amateur to photographic greats. Bubriski himself does so in the exhibition catalogue, naming Josef Koudelka or Robert Frank.In Rockefeller’s most striking photographs, his male Dani subjects seem at ease with his presence. This comfort is mutual, and is revealed in the calm yet bold compositions of these images...
Whoever did kill Litvinenko wasn't an amateur. British authorities announced last Friday that he had ingested a radioactive toxin, polonium 210, and that police had found traces of it in three locations: a sushi bar where Litvinenko had eaten lunch, a hotel he had visited on the same day and his home. Polonium 210 is so rare and volatile that the assassin would have needed access to a high-security nuclear laboratory to obtain it. Moscow denies that it had anything to do with the death. At a meeting with European officials in Helsinki, Vladimir Putin called the death...