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Greenblatt has led the charge against Baker’s decision to remove academics from journals because of their nationality. Greenblatt, who is also president of the Modern Languages Association, called Baker’s decision “a crude and embittering policy of exclusion” in an open letter to her last month...
Dugout Canoes The crew carved 15 canoes by hand during its journey--and carried some of them on crude wagons for 17 miles around the Great Falls of the Missouri. Empty, each weighed more than...
...improvisatory intelligence of actors, Zaben does it all himself, including the "performances." This presents the book's biggest challenge: the art. Everything has been drawn with heavy brushes and thick markers, including such normally fine stuff as body hair. The result can either be called bold or crude, depending on your generosity. The stiffly posed characters often seem as inanimate as the objects around them. Faces look identical and show little emotion. This ultimately keeps the audience at a distance, an effect that may very well be deliberate, but nonetheless becomes more of an obstacle than the author may realize...
...really as addictive as gambling, there must be a 12-step program somewhere to treat it. Sure enough, a Web search turns up an e-mail recovery program created back in 1997 by a pair of Florida State University administrators, Perry Crowell and Larry Conrad. It's pretty crude, Crowell admits, and because it was written before the explosion in users, traffic and e-mail viruses, it seems almost naive. "If we were to update it today, we might very well declare defeat," says Crowell...
...ASKED IT] Higher-end cameras can record short audio tags or crude video clips (really stills captured in quick succession...