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...drill has become depressingly routine. A news story hits the evening news or one of the TV tabloid shows; then the agents and producers descend. Sometimes there is a bidding war to lock up the rights for the participants' stories. Other times, the public record -- press accounts or court transcripts -- will suffice. The point is to get something on screen fast, while the story is fresh in viewers' minds...
...degrees of tolerance or disapproval. The greatest number of rapes would happen if 1) the soldiers were under direct orders to commit rape. Slightly fewer would take place if 2) there were fully articulated official approval of rape, as with the Soviets entering Germany in 1945. The levels would descend with 3) tacit $ official approval of rape, 4) official neutrality on the subject, 5) tacit official disapproval, 6) spoken official disapproval, 7) direct orders not to rape or 8) a written code of conduct prohibiting rape and mandating punishment for such behavior...
...lest we descend into geocentrism, it's important to remember that for all the City of Brotherly Love's lack of Brotherly Loyalty, there is always one group more lazy and superficial in their sports analysis: pollsters. They may be expert columnists, ready to regurgitate minute trivia, or coaches reared on nothing but Gatorade and Knute Rockne speeches. But give them a vote in a poll, and they're no more principled or sophisticated in their analysis than the average Yankee...
Getting there requires the skills of a subterranean mountain climber, which is why Lake of the Clouds is off limits to the public. The underground trek involves scrambling through narrow passages, navigating around steep crevasses and using ropes to descend two drop-offs -- the second of which encompasses a 60-m (200 ft.) cliff. Turn off the miner's light on your helmet, and you cannot see your hand in front of your face...
Harvard Square businesses and University authorities are gearing up for the influx of the nearly 30,000 Yalies and Harvard affiliates who will descend on The Stadium today...