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...event, the legislation is likely to destroy the academic atmosphere of openness and honesty. “No academic would submit to this scrutiny,” said Kahn. “It is contrary to deep thinking...

Author: By Joseph T. Scarry, | Title: Big Brother in Area Studies | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

When the first same-sex marriages are celebrated here, Massachusetts will truly make history. Hopefully, when people see that this does not “destroy society as we know it” (as one conservative commentator has predicted), they will abandon what the Goodridge court called the “destructive stereotype that same-sex relationships are…inferior to opposite-sex relationships and are not worthy of respect...

Author: By Jonah M. Knobler and Samuel P. Tepperman-gelfant, S | Title: After Goodridge: What Now? | 12/2/2003 | See Source »

...always had fairly catholic tastes, but he now finds himself listening more to John Mayer and Coldplay than to rap. "There's not a bunch of hip-hop artists that you can relate to once you hit 30," he says. "I think, unfortunately, rap music is made to destroy itself. You have to be fresh and sell to an audience that's 16 to 25. They demand that you 'keep it hood,' 'keep it real.'" He says this sadly, but he can't deny responsibility. Today's records show: rap artists are doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In His Next Lifetime | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...Despite periodic triumphs of espionage and applied intellect--those of Bletchley Park's decrypters against the German Enigma codes of World War II, for example--the value of intelligence in war, Keegan thinks, may be limited or illusory. "Knowledge, the conventional wisdom has it, is power; but knowledge cannot destroy or deflect or damage or even defy an offensive initiative by an enemy unless the possession of knowledge is also allied to objective force," Keegan writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spy Slyly, Carry a Big Gun | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...There are chapters on the British disaster on Crete in 1941 ("Foreknowledge No Help"), on the Americans' immense triumph at Midway a year later (a world-historical victory that owed as much to luck, Keegan ingeniously argues, as to intelligence) and the struggle of British intelligence to locate and destroy Hitler's U-boat offensive against England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spy Slyly, Carry a Big Gun | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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