Word: grayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...also have to work ... sort of the dark side ... A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion." Since then, the U.S. government appears to have quietly defined down torture so that only the most horrific practices are barred. Legal gray zones such as Guantánamo and the network of "black sites" were set up to avoid the scrutiny of U.S. courts. Some of this can be explained as a natural reaction to the trauma following the attacks on New York City and Washington. But with Cheney himself lobbying...
...research in the astro-physical field.” In general, the proposals fall into two categories—funding to explore countries for future student programs, and grants that establish trips students can take part in immediately.William Granara, professor of the practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, will use his fund to investigate the American University of Cairo and Cairo University in Egypt, to consider them as potential sites for summer study, or academic years abroad, for interested students. One grant for more immediate use went to Gerald Gabrielse, Leverett professor of physics, who proposed sponsorship allowing...
...Copernicus and Galileo a few years later and ends with 2002’s cyclotron. “I love seeing what was considered to be cutting edge at the [different] times,” said Kathy Putnam, whose husband helped fund the project. Briahna J. Gray ’07 said she liked the artisan approach of the collection. One piece that stood out to her, she said, was a static electricity machine that was built on a bed frame, having been created by a bedmaker. Another notable piece is the 18th-century orrery—a solar system...
...scenes makes the 88-minute movie feel as if it will never end. The most artistically developed sequence involves Charlie and Vic dragging a trunk, which is filled with an overweight hit man, across a dilapidated bridge in the dead of night. The scene is oddly picturesque: a large gray hill in the foreground is overwhelmed by a crystal blue sky, with the actors visible by their shadowed outlines. With an unoriginal plot, dull setting, and lack of humor, all “The Ice Harvest” has to offer is its over-the-top violence. However, the unadulterated...
Harvard Law School will delve into the legal gray areas of health care, bioethics, and biotechnology with the launch of a new $10 million center dedicated to law and health policy, the school announced yesterday.The new Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics will focus on the legal matters associated with advancements in science and technology.“These are some places where law is changing rapidly and where there are a great many unsolved and very important questions,” Law School Dean Elena Kagan said. “This center will really give...