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Welcome to the UC-sponsored "Student Comedy Night." The event should have been subtitled: "the largest public display of sexism and racism at Harvard this year...
PTSD is the modern term for what used to be called battle fatigue or shell shock. A congressional study in 1988 found that about 479,000 of the nation's 3.5 million or so Vietnam vets are afflicted with serious cases; an additional 350,000 display more moderate symptoms. PTSD is a state of extreme arousal caused by the virtual nonstop release of adrenaline and other similar substances into the bloodstream. When cars backfire, PTSD patients generally hit the dirt. The sound of helicopter rotor blades causes some to conceal themselves in trees. A baby's cry can invoke instant...
Rembrandt's biblical etchings treat Old and New Testament subjects; these scenes display many of Rembrandt's hallmarks. The Near Eastern motif appears in the clothes and objects of his pictures. Rembrandt also portrays the poorer members of society in a highly sympathetic light, depicting shepherds and peasants as particularly pious disciples of Christ...
...landmark case was brought by shipyard welder Lois Robinson, who accused her employer of ignoring the display of pornographic images and condoning the routine verbal abuse of the six females among the 846 skilled-crafts employees. Robinson and two other women testified that they endured a barrage of comments from their male peers, perhaps the mildest of which was "I'd like to get in bed with that." The offending photos, many of which came from calendars provided by tool-supply companies, included a nude woman bending over with her buttocks and genitals exposed, a nude female torso with USDA...
...world goes into chaotic motion, becomes a verb and not a collection of nouns. Reality blurs. Generals and Presidents need a clear eye for the truth. But the home front and the troops in the line are sustained less by truth than by emotion (propaganda, fang baring, plumage display) and their own myth. Saddam Hussein knows this and makes a fairly gaudy display of mystique. The leaders of the coalition arrayed against Saddam have their idealism and materialism in uneasy alignment, pretty much without illusions. The trouble is that they do not always trust their own people with the truth...