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...downs of everyday soldier life. Even the most banal serves as a suspenseful contrast to ticking bombs and explosions. When James confuses a dead boy’s bomb-strapped body for the young Iraqi kid he’d befriended, his reaction is both sincere and destructive??like no shortage of other situations in Iraq. The movement from the commonplace to the unbelievable creates a surreality similar to that of “Apocalypse Now.” In one scene, a soldier almost annoyingly complains about his duty; immediately after, he is forced to wipe fresh...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Hurt Locker | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...Just as frat “brothers” have always found safety in numbers, these two hide their odious opinions behind the claim that they are being funny. They must be called to account. Zangrilli says that the shirts express an “extremist, primitive, and self-destructive?? idea. So why express...

Author: By Jules Loeser | Title: Dartmouth T-Shirts Show ‘Neanderthal’ Culture | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

Maats said he made a conscious effort to avoid “expensive and destructive?? actions, but to keep the war “lighthearted...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: House Wars Fail To Ignite | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

Does this create an inherent conflict with groups that consider evangelism a core tenet of their belief system? Some see little difference between these “destructive?? groups and Christian groups that seek to enthusiastically share their faith. But at Harvard, even the extent of those groups’ evangelism varies, depending on whom...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Checking God Off Your To-Do List | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

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