Word: harmful
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...present evidence for both the benefits and perils of government secrecy. Examples of heightened security like the Manhattan Project and the Cold War highlight the importance of information secrecy, while political atrocities such as the Abu Ghraib scandal illuminate how secrecy can be used as a shroud to condone harm and, as one film interviewee describes, to “dip back into the well of evil in the human soul.” The film is narrated only by a portentous score from local composer John Kusiak. REVEALING THE TRUTH In a question-and-answer session following the screening...
...sense of menace, magnified by Valle’s low whisper, that curls you into the song’s harmonic arms while the brontosaurus beat stomps forward. The tracks rotate upon revolving choruses and repeating lines (e.g. “There’s no harm / There’s no harm / There’s no harm done”) but the circles shift sufficiently to make the songs interesting. Slow harmonic builds like the one at the end of “Sleep in Splendor” are what redeem this disc from the oblivion of sonorous...
...almost hear a collective "Oh give me a break." Some worry about the possibility of "Swift-boating" to come. "For negativity to start this early is ridiculous but inevitable," says Megan Peiffer, 22, a Des Moines Democrat who works for a local nonprofit. "It will do more harm than good." Alan Young, 44, president of the teachers union in Des Moines, adds "Most folks in Iowa do want to hear and talk about issues. We're not as much into the show...
...appears that any expression of disapproval for the war in Iraq has to be accompanied, if not preceded, by a declaration of support for the troops. The specific inclusion of troops who are no longer in harm's way shows how empty and rhetorical this declaration of support has become. It's not that anybody around here doesn't "support the troops" - whatever that means. It's that the only reason this gets said is to block the accusation that, by opposing the war, you somehow oppose the troops - once again, whatever that means...
...easy to see why Democrats are in thrall to unions—after all, they’ve bankrolled the party for decades—but student activists have fewer excuses. Luckily, because the University doesn’t face normal market pressures, the harms of unionization at Harvard are more limited. Although SLAM’s efforts may be quixotic, and harm the unemployed, the University probably won’t cut costs and raise prices to the same degree a normal corporation would...