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...blunt about it, we needed dough,” explains the magazine’s founder, Dr. Robert Coles ’50, Agee Professor of Social Ethics. “We desperately needed to pay people who had written for us and whose pictures we’d used.” The situation, he says, “had put us in a moral bind...
Listen to what President Bush is saying, and there can be little doubt that war in Iraq is now inevitable. "If [Saddam Hussein] had any intention of disarming, he would have disarmed," the President told USA Today in comments published Friday. "We will disarm him now," he added. That blunt statement of intent, and Wednesday's speech declaring his war aims suggested Friday morning that the President's mind was made up. That message was made clear Friday afternoon, when White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the U.S. would only be satisfied when Saddam was out of power - a significant...
...true. In 2001, the most recent year for which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has figures, there were 162 deaths per million SUVs (including crossovers) and 157 deaths per million cars--meaning the death rate for SUVs was slightly higher. Why? There are several reasons, but in blunt comments last month, Dr. Jeffrey Runge, the NHTSA administrator, highlighted the most important: partly because of their high center of gravity--a feature drivers love--SUVs are prone to tip over. Rollovers account for more than half of SUV fatalities, Runge said...
...BGLTSA’s political chair, Zahr orchestrated the plastering of black-and-white posters around campus last November that featured a name and the blunt account of how the person violently died—without any explanation of the motivation behind the posters...
...CURIOUS (YELLOW) and I AM CURIOUS (BLUE). Olof Palme, the former Prime Minister of Sweden, appears in the highly controversial and celebrated 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow). The 1968 counterpart is just as erotic and just as blunt in its portrayal of contemporary youth. Directed by Vilgot Sjˆman. Screenings Saturday Feb. 8. 7 pm and 9:30 pm, respectively. Tickets $7/students $5. No one under 18 admitted. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center...