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...soldiers—drew a crowd of nearly 200 on its opening night on March 1. Critics have said the exhibit portrays only the extremes of military life—such as a picture of an IDF soldier smiling in front of several corpses—and offers little context...
That statement, in its context, is revolutionary. First, because it so clearly contradicts the SBC's 2007 position on global warming, which is a fairly blunt statement that climate change hasn't been proven. And secondly, because it has teeth: its 44 signatories include the current SBC president and two of his predecessors (one of whom happens to be Merritt's father, James) and the heads of three well-known Baptist-affiliated colleges and divinity schools. At a telephone news conference Monday, Republican Senator John Warner expressed solidarity and solicited support for his bill to reduce greenhouse gases...
...courtiers. Recruited as a kind of bag man for the secret service, he receives the nasty photograph of the Princess, with the blithest of comments: "She always was a scalawag." But this picture is not after comedy, it is aiming for larger ironies. And delivers them effectively in the context of fast-paced and gripping crime drama...
...Translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter, the book is a window into Hartwig’s interpretation of the real essence of life. Unconstrained by the expectations of social constructs and unencumbered by the tendency to divide everything into black and white, her poems address universal themes in the context of a specific sentiment, image, or idea. Hartwig uses her poems to expose life in all its strange incongruities, rendering it naked and vulnerable to our judgment.At first glance, Hartwig’s work is unremarkable. The titles of her pieces, which are usually drawn from lines in the poems...
...exhibit is now on display within Rosovsky Hall, it does not represent the views of the entire Hillel community. While PJA, other sponsors, and community members have expressed support for the exhibit, many at Hillel feel that the exhibit portrays a misleading message—one lacking a broader context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Such broader context is key because it creates an open forum for the exchange of ideas. It is also the reason why exhibits as controversial as “Breaking the Silence” have a place where they can be respectfully articulated, propagated, accepted...