Word: franked
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...intercut with interviews and newsreel footage, suggesting the simultaneous erasure and cataloging of occult information. As the filmmakers delve deeper into their murky subject matter, the music grows more ominous and the sound stages on which the interviews are filmed darken with layered shadows.Galison and Moss coax surprisingly frank admissions from a dozen people whose lives have been steeped in secrets. These confessions are given in an almost uniformly even-handed, rational tone that betrays their gravity. As Melissa Boyle Mahle, former CIA Chief of Base in Jerusalem, says to us, “A democracy is not a natural...
...Eating isn’t fun anymore,” reads one particularly frank Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) poster. On a busy campus like Harvard, the most these posters may get out of passersby may be the moment or two they take to consider the message before hurrying off to class.But for many at Harvard, these posters hit closer to home. In the weight-obsessed era of fad diets and diminishing waist sizes, what role do colleges play in ensuring that students have a healthy relationship with food? When do habits of college students who are watching what...
...attract Ivy championship-caliber players to Cambridge.According to Thamel, several candidates who interviewed for the head coaching job along with Amaker confirmed that they were told that they would be allowed to compete with the other Ivy schools in recruiting. Normally reticent athletic director Bob Scalise was remarkably frank on this front in the Times piece. He conceded that Amaker’s staff is getting the recruiting leeway consistent with “a willingness to say that we really do want to compete for the Ivy championship.” Despite Thamel’s suggestions...
...unidentified man exposed his genitals to a female Harvard undergraduate around 9 p.m. on Sunday, according to Cambridge Police Department spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello. The offender approached the student at the intersection of Mill and Plympton Streets as she was walking back to her dorm, according to Pasquarello. The offender then opened his coat and flashed her as she turned around. The victim immediately walked away from the offender, said Steven G. Catalano, Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) public information officer. Once back on campus, she called the police. The victim was not physically hurt, and the offender never spoke...
...those volunteers is Frank Thornton, a 36-year-old organizer for the SEIU, who spent a recent typically snowy, windy Cleveland afternoon knocking on union household doors in the old Italian neighborhood known as "the flats." "Well, I was for Hillary but Obama says a lot of things I like to hear so I'm still on the fence," said Sherry Rowland, waving Thornton into her living room. "I feel like they've both saying the same things, though...