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...working populace returns to the office after its turn-of-the-year holiday, struggling with the misery of the daily grind, with the loss of nine-to-five freedom, and (in many cases) with newly-gained weight, the last thing that anyone needs is a blunt reminder that others remain on holiday—having too much...
...Lanka. "If the fault line had been running east-west, there could have been considerably more damage to Burma," says Jason Ali, a geoscientist at the University of Hong Kong. The small, rocky islands and coral reef that shield much of the country's coastline may have also helped blunt the waves...
Irina Malinovskaya, 22, a senior at Penn’s Wharton School of Business, faces first-degree murder charges for killing Irina Zlotnikov, 24, with a “blunt object,” New Castle County, Del., police said...
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the chief architect of Pope John Paul II's traditionalist moral policy, has long been a bugaboo for liberal Catholics. But they had stopped worrying that the German might one day ascend to St. Peter's throne. His hard-line views and blunt approach had earned him the epithet of panzerkardinal and too many enemies. Well, their worrying may now resume. Sources in Rome tell TIME that Ratzinger has re-emerged as the top papal candidate within the Vatican hierarchy, joining other front runners such as Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan and Claudio Hummes of S??o Paolo...
...Filmmaking Robb Moss have both made breathtaking films about, respectively, violent insurrection in Nicaragua and the decay of idealism in an aging generation. Even worse, my request for a discussion of broader social meaning in our art-making practice raises ugly specters of indoctrination. Stephen Prina was especially blunt in response to questions about professors’ potential role in shaping students’ feelings about broader social engagement saying, “We don’t teach propaganda...