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...only other concern brought forth is the misguided belief that cable broadcasting in individual dorm rooms will detract from the substantial sense of community that the House system brings to Harvard. But judging from the other “quality entertainment” that Harvard students engage in each weekend, it does not seem that a little cable programming will hurt. On the contrary, it could actually enhance the House system by allowing every dorm room to become a center for gathering. Cable can help every room become a common room—and without having to barter for your...
...across America before making their way to Europe (Rome, to be precise) on July 24. The mobs were the idea of Bill, a twenty-something New Yorker who says only that he works in the "culture industry." Bill doesn't want to be identified because he thinks that would detract from the mob's appeal. Interested in the social reasons people go to see performing arts, he began to ruminate on what would happen if the performance were taken out of the equation. So he invited the 50 people on his e-mail...
...textbooks. Like the titillating contention that the most popular radical works of the Enlightenment, such as the influential Thérèse Philosophe, which follows a young woman's sexual and philosophical development, "were from the genre of philosophical pornography." Vive La Revolution's chatty informality doesn't detract from its rigor. Steel is not a historian, but he's done his homework. Even Revolution buffs may find surprising new facts - like the 15-min. bathside chat Charlotte Corday shared with revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat before murdering him - or provocative takes on old ones. The tale...
...Niger yellowcake uranium imbroglio concerns a piece of intelligence Washington knew was bad that was nonetheless restated in President Bush's State of the Union address. A bureaucratic snafu, says the Bush Administration, and one which doesn't detract at all from the case for war; in fact it was hardly a significant part of that case in the first place. Indeed. But three months after taking control of Iraq, the deeper question looming on the horizon is less how one item of bad intelligence slipped into a keynote speech than how so much of the intelligence the Administration...
...Baghdad, however, the theft and vandalism were conducted largely by victorious American troops, according to U.S. officials, Iraqi Airways staff members and other airport workers. The troops, they say, stole duty-free items, needlessly shot up the airport and trashed five serviceable Boeing airplanes. "I don't want to detract from all the great work that's going into getting the airport running again," says Lieut. John Welsh, the Army civil-affairs officer charged with bringing the airport back into operation. "But you've got to ask, If this could have been avoided, did we shoot ourselves in the foot...