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Modern history has a way of being modest with its gifts and blunt with its reckonings. Good news comes like a breeze you feel but don't notice; the markets are up, the air is cleaner, we're beating heart disease. It is the bad news that comes with a blast or a crash, to stop us in midsentence to stare at the TV, and shudder...
...tape. But in a year when it felt at times as if we had nothing in common anymore, we were united in this hope: that our men and women at arms might soon come safely home, because their job was done. They are the bright, sharp instrument of a blunt policy, and success or failure in a war unlike any in history ultimately rests with them...
...backroom cell-phone calls, the clandestine visits, the little apercus of agreement on global warming are all part of a modern political romance novel. Apparently the doctor has a bedside manner after all. But the relationship did not really get serious until Gore decided it was time for a blunt conversation in August. The country needed to learn more about Dean than the fact that he was against everything that George Bush says and does, Gore told him. Dean needed to tell the country his own ideas, to move from combative rhetoric about the U.S. role in the world...
...that case, an undergraduate was taking a commonly-used short-cut through the church parking lot between Arrow and Mount Auburn Streets to her Dunster House room when she was struck from behind with a blunt object and forced to the ground...
...early October of this year, three females were sexually assaulted just blocks from the Quad. A little over a month ago, an unidentifed man groped an undergraduate while she was walking through Cambridge Common. Last week, an unidentified man struck a student from behind with a blunt object, forced her to the ground and sexually assaulted her in the parking lot of St. Paul’s Church. The victim count is up to five—and we’re only in December...