Word: bombed
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...even if you don’t think of the Foreign Service as some kind of surrogate parent, most of us imagine that our national embassies—bomb targets as they are—are at least shelters, dispensers of information and help centers. Until you have cause to visit one such haven, it’s hard to realize quite how absurd this illusion is. Helping national citizens is, of course but a small part of embassy duties; they are mostly occupied with far more significant matters: negotiating trade disputes, schmoozing local bigwigs, putting on cultural shows...
With the arrests and the renewed printing of the caricatures, particularly the most controversial one, Westergaard's depiction of the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban, the question also rose whether new anti-Danish protests would sweep the Middle East and Pakistan. Bjorn Moller, an expert on terrorism and the Middle East, believes this week's cartoons will not have the same effect. "I don't believe there is any major interest in escalating this event in the Arab countries. Last time it turned out to be a strategy that didn't work...
...source of the email was Dunster House resident Matthew M. Di Pasquale ’08, the creator of Diamond—Harvard’s newest magazine. If published, Diamond will join campus sex magazine H Bomb in the business of publishing photographs of nude undergraduates. Di Pasquale believes that Diamond will stand out by being “more Hollywood”—à la Maxim or Playboy. His goal of classiness, unfortunately, seems to have been lost in the way he chose to solicit models...
...Pasquale is probably right in identifying an audience on campus—and perhaps beyond Harvard—for Diamond. H Bomb has published off and on since 2004, and it would be naïve to argue that porn does not exist in campus dorms. Students’ uneasiness, therefore, stems from the way in which content is being solicited and its inconsistency with the magazine’s purported mission: “class, prestige, and style...
...Bomb editor-in-chief Martabel Wasserman ’10 holds similar sentiments for her own magazine. “We are filling a hole in the media of the college,” she says. “We are not trying to compete with any existing voices.” The relatively recent appearence of the Cinematic, Freeze, and Present! can be explained by similar desires to satisfy niche markets with their exclusive coverage of—respectively—film, fashion, and anarchist...