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...Justice was done," Pelletier said. "It doesn't take away anything from Yelena and Anton. This was not something against them. It was something against the system." Will the blow-up lead to reforms in that system that have been talked about for years? One idea is that Olympic judges should no longer be nominated by the national skating federations but chosen instead by the I.S.U. While that would do nothing to solve the problem of judges' being partial to skaters of their own nationality, it would break the tight links of association that now bind them to their national...
...Arnold becomes human. Note to the director: have done with the tortured heroes, the conflicted warriors. We like our Arnold resolute, unyielding and triumphant. What we get instead is an Arnold shaken, not stirred. To see our invincible Terminator brought low by a terrorist is to receive a cinematic blow to the groin. It’s painful, it’s excruciating and it turns us completely off. Rocky may be beaten and Jackie humbled, but Arnold is superman...
Kennedy offers some controversial solutions to society’s problems with this tenacious word. Using the N-word liberally, he thinks, may soften its offensive blow, a theory propounded by filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Lenny Bruce. This way, speakers can take control of the word’s semantic implications, “owning” and defining it according to a more positive, and self-determined, ideal...
...classy, intimate birthday party for New Quincy resident Francesca D. Thanklin ’03 was invaded by “hordes of [Undergraduate Council] nerds” Friday night. Shell-shocked witness David B. Stevens ’03 provides a blow-by-blow account of the chilling dork attack: “I was talking with some people I met at the party when the door opened and about 20 of the sorriest-looking kids I’ve ever seen stumbled in. Within two minutes, they’d insulted the host and spilled a handle...
...would wake up to the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of people around the world willing to die in order to inflict damage on the United States. If America stopped fighting this war now, we would be leaving the vast majority of terrorists free to hijack planes, blow up buildings and create weapons of mass destruction...