Word: explicitness
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...This administration has acknowledged the danger of such negative perceptions, appointing former Bush aide Karen Hughes as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy with the explicit mission of improving America’s image abroad. Yet it is the face on the ground that is most visible. And in the United Kingdom, that face now happens to be one of a Beverly Hills car dealer...
While I was pleased that you reported on pornography studies [April 3], comments attributed to me need clarification. I do use sexually explicit materials in my human-sexuality course, although X-rated movies are not the only means to teach pornography. In response to your reporter's question about students who might be exploited in a sexuality class, I explained that students should not be exploited in any way, whether in a sexuality course or a statistics course. Your story consequently stated that I believe porn "is best taught with the same dispassion with which one would teach a course...
...would mean that UC is improperly deferring to another group’s guidelines when it is the UC, as a student government, that should set and adhere to its own rules. Second, it would allow the UC to fund groups that have clauses in their bylaws that explicitly prohibit some individuals from becoming officers of the group based on their religious views. For these reasons, we ask that the UC vote “no” on this bill or any similar proposal.The UC should not defer to the CCL’s more lenient standards, which recognize...
...DIED. VILGOT SJ?MAN, 81, maverick Swedish film director and prot?g? of Ingmar Bergman whose taboo-challenging, sexually explicit 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow) was briefly banned by U.S. censors before going on to become the most profitable foreign film in America until 1994, when Like Water for Chocolate broke the record; in Stockholm...
DIED. Vilgot Sjoman, 81, maverick Swedish film director and protg of Ingmar Bergman whose taboo-challenging, sexually explicit 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow) was briefly banned by U.S. censors before going on to become the most profitable foreign film in America until 1994, when Like Water for Chocolate broke the record; in Stockholm...