Word: flare
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Some artists were meant to be stars, conquering the music world with either their charisma or flare (think Madonna), their unique sound (think Rolling Stones), or a combination of both (the king of pop, Michael Jackson). Mirwais fails to fall into any of these categories, despite his best attempts; he even sports some bizarre wire facial ornament on the cover of the album. If he’s attempting to make a statement, he fails, unless the statement is “I’m a Borg.” And someone please tell him to keep that jacket...
...most recent flare-up occurred two weeks ago when the council blasted Harvard for not making the same commitment to Cambridge education as it had through its Boston afterschool initiative...
...world has seen military flare-ups in these parts before. In 1983, to the north, a Soviet fighter downed a Korean airliner that strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 aboard. And Saturday's mid-air collision occurred just outside the Gulf of Tonkin, where in 1964 President Johnson used a skirmish involving the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy as a pretext for launching air strikes against North Vietnam, beginning what came to be known as the Vietnam...
...population. What is at stake now is the very survival of a multi-ethnic Macedonia, and the crisis is not yet over, even though there may be a brief respite. If the government is unable to address the political grievances that the rebels have exploited, we could see violence flare up again within the next week...
Stephen E. Sachs '02 is after something in "Questioning Homosexuality." He is conniving, using slithery arguments and doubling back, but why? Flare is a silly publication, and they have produced a silly headline in "Moving Beyond the Morality Debate," but this is all secondary. Can we honestly believe that there is still a debate to be had? We can carry on our "morality debate" until we're blue in the face, but it won't matter. Morality, as of now, is still subjective; until a moral philosopher comes along and cements the whole thing, and all humanity says...