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...first comment is in connection with "Students React to Bombings" (News, March 26). The obvious flaw in the piece was that none of the students interviewed were of Serbian descent, although there are several undergraduates at the College who are from Serbia. While I reluctantly support the NATO military action, I am severely distressed to see that the Serbian perspective was not at all represented...
...completion was interrupted by World War II. So was Hubble's career. The ex-major signed on as head of ballistics at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. (At one point the eminent astronomer spent an afternoon test-firing bazookas, at great personal risk, to pinpoint a design flaw...
...Which One of You Is the Man?" The narrator's complex and playfully oblique answers assert the legitimacy of her love though they never really tell us a story--veering instead towards commentary and description. I see the lack of substantial plot in Winterson's writing less as a flaw in her abilities as raconteur and more as her attempt to defy the genre of short fiction. She challenges our notions of love and storytelling simultaneously...
...doesn't take a wing-tipped M.B.A. to spot the flaw here--much of the world is in or near recession, demand for personal computers is slowing, so are corporate profits. Amid that sluggishness, the Labor Department said Friday that unemployment inched higher in February--to 4.4%, from 4.3% the previous month. And the prices of raw materials like oil and copper, on average, are at their lowest in decades. This is not the stuff of sudden price hikes in consumer items. "It's beyond me how anyone can be worried about inflation," economist Allen Sinai at Primark Decision Economics...
...result of Starr's conduct during his investigation, it seems clear that Congress will not renew the law this year without substantial revisions. The most urgent flaw of the current statute is that the independent counsel, though himself appointed to oversee and investigate public officials, has no oversight himself. There was no one to monitor him as he spent more than $40 million on his campaign...