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Need a new hairdo? Queen Latifah’s got one for you in Beauty Shop, a movie that works off of and modifies its predecessors—Barbershop and Barbershop 2—adding a feminine twist to its talented ensemble cast and blunt, sometimes crude discussions of culture, race...

Author: By Kevin Ferguson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: Beauty Shop | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...presidential commission chaired by former Senator Chuck Robb and retired Judge Laurence Silberman was blunt in assigning blame for the flawed conclusion that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction (WMD), one of the major reasons Bush gave for invading Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Read: The WMD Intel Report | 4/2/2005 | See Source »

...list an address readers could use to alert compliance officers whenever retail sonographers set up shop in their community. Since then, a few states, including California and Illinois, have proposed legislation banning such ultrasounds. In the meantime, says Copel, "physicians can do a fair amount to blunt the impact of these places." If provided with a blank videotape beforehand, his staff will happily pop it into the VCR and record the sonogram for posterity. Some of his colleagues will do the same with DVDs. "But we do it only when there is a medical indication to do the ultrasound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sonograms R Us | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

...thing that really pushes my buttons is when people try to paint every legitimate action as a form of political correctness. I really find that that is a blunt instrument and that is McCarthyite tactics,” she said, provoking applause from many faculty members...

Author: By William C. Marra and Sara E. Polsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: LACK OF CONFIDENCE | 3/16/2005 | See Source »

...thing that really pushes my buttons is when people try to paint every legitimate action as a form of political correctness. I really find that that is a blunt instrument and that is McCarthyite tactics,” she said, provoking applause from many faculty members...

Author: By William C. Marra and Sara E. Polsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: LACK OF CONFIDENCE | 3/15/2005 | See Source »

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