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...because they seem gripped by an ever deepening sense of fatalism. This week, UN weapons inspectors, led by Swedish diplomat Hans Blix, are back in Baghdad after a four-year absence. But Iraqis see their arrival as delaying war rather than preventing it. Even Saddam himself seems to echo the anxiety. The letter from Saddam's government accepting Security Council Resolution 1441 is full of defiant rants about injustice, but its key passage cites the normally defiant Saddam's "sacred duty" to spare Iraqis from disaster...
...Kottke lost much of the hearing in his left ear as a result of a mishap with a firecracker. During a later time in the Naval Reserve, his right ear suffered permanent damage during firing practice. But, despite whatever keenness he lacks physically, the tone he produces with his echo-in-a-hollow-barrel of a voice and warm 12-string and six-string guitar playing soothes and sounds past any apparent need for rehabilitation...
...good,” he says. He’s right on one count; the album is saturated with melody—but not powerful, ethereal, or even trippy melodies, as in earlier trance before the whole genre went to corporate hell. Rather, these are the sort of cumbersome, echo-laden melodies that typify modern film scores. In fact, the whooshing sound effects, smiley-face synths and ham-fisted guitars generate a condescending muck so leaden that they even render the album’s joyless and deflated grooves a pleasant distraction—no small achievement...
...Others echo Vaidya’s enthusiasm at the enlarged diet options...
Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) volunteers—and those members of the Harvard community to whom eating concerns are an uncomfortable reality—deserve an apology from The Crimson for running the insensitive and unfair editorial cartoon by Collin W. Blackburn ’04 (Oct. 15). Indeed, it’s unclear what to call this piece, as it has no political message and serves no apparent purpose except to stigmatize those who staff campus helplines and those they serve. Peer counseling groups such as ECHO and Contact provide an important service even to those...