Word: contrivedness
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As classes began this week in earnest, Camp Harvard ’08 and its sidekick, “Shopping Period,” came to a jarring end. And while freshman Facebook statuses bemoaning its conclusion have begun to pop up across the Harvard network, I can?...
The moralists, for their part, have begun demanding the military overthrow of Mugabe. Many of them are neoconservatives motivated largely by the desire to ridicule multilateralism and resuscitate the so-called Bush Doctrine. Such voices conveniently forget that the Bush Doctrine has never actually been tried in practice. The war...
Secondly, there's India's fitful, parallel struggle as a nation. As a mathematician, Suri is fond of symmetries, and India's political tumult - from bloody partition through to the difficult years of Indira Gandhi's Emergency - backdrops Meera's narrative in sometimes contrived, sometimes clever ways.
TIME's pro-Barack Obama slant is so transparent that it makes your objectivity in reporting seriously questionable [April 21]. The picture on your March 10 cover with a halo of light around Obama's head looks like something out of a campaign flyer. Then there's the contrived photo...
TIME's pro-Obama slant is so transparent that it seriously calls into question your objectivity in reporting the news. The picture on your March 10 cover with a halo of light around Obama's head looks like something out of a campaign flyer. Inside, there was the contrived photo...