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...military’s resources and expertise, they are also detached from the moral and legal oversight that is (hopefully) associated with the U.S. military. At certain points during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has not lived up to those standards, but the checks exist, as the trials of Abu Ghraib officers and alleged murders in the military demonstrate. For Blackwater, legal repercussions have been essentially nonexistent since 2004, when L. Paul Bremer, then the head administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, granted private contractors a complicated immunity scheme. While the order was supposedly not intended...
...list somewhere between “Pick up your dry cleaning” and “Win a Nobel Peace Prize.” But when I run into groups like Repent America, I start rethinking my life. “Things do not exist simply because you do or do not believe in them,” Nathan said. “If you don’t believe in trucks, that won’t stop a truck from destroying you.” Fortunately, this argument cuts both ways—just because Repent America believes...
...speech last Monday entitled “X-Underrated—Pornography and Popular Culture,” Pound Visiting Professor of Law Catherine A. MacKinnon stressed to her Barker Center audience of several dozen that pornography cannot exist separately from the mainstream. MacKinnon is a longtime social activist who has committed much of her career to advocating legislation to curb pornography and representing former porn actresses in suing for damages. In her speech Monday, MacKinnon went straight for shock tactics, suggesting that society is wrong to consider porn harmless when it produces images as bad as those that came...
...Prior to 20 years ago, these small hotels didn't even exist," says Mary-Anne Denison-Pender, whose Mahout agency promotes small Indian hotels in the U.K. In the '80s, in a bid to finance maintenance on their private properties, some families tried their hand at the hotel business. "Every person with a fort thought they had a hotel, but many of them didn't invest enough, and they got backpackers and low-budget tourists," she says...
...interdisciplinary program exposed potters and dancers to each others’ artistic experience. As David J. Tischfield ’09, a ceramicist who runs the Quincy Pottery Studio, put it, “I took away an appreciation for abstract dance, and what other types of art forms exist out there. To me, dance never seemed like an art form because it exists only in the moment—I was absolutely wrong.”DANCE AND EARTHIn his discussions, Berensohn discussed his philosophy concerning the forces of creation, artistic and otherwise. He bases much of his thought...