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...family makes national news. Sheik Bakr Mohammed bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s brother, made two gifts totaling $2 million to the University to fund fellowships for the study of Islamic culture. Harvard officials, responding to attacks, stress that the University will cease using funds if any explicit link to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization are found...
...Films: The mystery of the purloined penis. An American indie movie, Vincent Gallo's stupefyingly inept The Brown Bunny, let loose such a torrent of critical contumely that the director-writer-star-cameraman-editor apologized publicly for his film. Bunny's only selling point was the promise of an explicit scene of fellatio between Gallo and Chloë Sevigny. One hour and 47 minutes into the ordeal, there it came, and went. We later learned that Gallo had used a phallic prosthesis he'd taken from the set of Claire Denis' French film Trouble Every Day (shown at Cannes...
...list itself has existed for over a decade, he said. But applications isolated for scrutiny were previously approved after 30 days if no governmental agency objected. Since Sept. 11, however, a scrutinized application must receive explicit approval for each agency in order to pass—a procedure that has slowed down visa processing tremendously, and has prevented some prospective students and scholars from arriving in the U.S. in time for their studies...
Besides the traditional, Arts First has had its share of edgier, experimental works. In 1997, conflict arose over the exclusion of an act called “Dancing Deviant” from the program. The show, a multi-media solo performance containing nudity and sexually explicit material in an exploration of sexuality, included a scene of self-penetration with a vibrator and was informally referred to as “a back-flip on top of a dildo,” according to The Crimson...
...inevitability, at least a bit of propulsion from forces larger than one man's desire. Gulf War I was provoked by an actual event: Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. George the Elder didn't have to make war, but he had to do something. Vietnam, famously, was never an explicit decision. Even the parody war in Grenada had a few captive American medical students to force its way onto the agenda. Some people believe that Franklin Roosevelt personally, deliberately and even dishonestly maneuvered a reluctant America into World War II. But World War II was history boiling over and impossible...