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...meet was over, but the results of the final and deciding event, the 400-yard freestyle relay, still remained deep in the heart of the Blodgett Pool timing system, leaving the main scoreboard blank...
...regardless of one's answer to the first part of the referendum, the only response to "Proposition Two" is to leave it blank. The second question of this seemingly simple referendum is a loaded one. Clouded by its nebulous wording and endowed with a dubious agenda of political double-meanings, the basic issue of the second question--whether or not the Council should take a stand on divestment--has been completely misframed...
Students should recognize what the majority is advocating: leaving question two blank is the tantamount to voting no. In order for the Council to represent the views of students, the second question needs 50 percent of the ballots cast. Not voting will tell the Council not to take a stand on divestment. By leaving the question blank one does not avoid taking a stand on whether the Undergraduate Council should address political issues. Question two may be subject to a variety of interpretations, but it can not be glibly avoided. The majority position would, indeed, "hoodwink" students into making...
...radical Arab states so much, and want to maintain their economic ties so badly, that their regional foreign policy has been nearly paralyzed. This is cause not just for disappointment that a golden opportunity is being lost, but for alarm that men like Khadafy see no end to their blank check for violence...
...paradox of these pictures is that their visual crispness masks the complexity of their message. Avedon's ultrasharp focus seems to promise minute disclosures. His blank backgrounds suggest elemental truthfulness. If this is not a straightforward picture of the West, what could be? But those optical certainties are a tease. Avedon makes that explicit in the foreword to a recently published volume of these pictures (Abrams; $40). "A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture," he writes. "The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part...