Word: lightness
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...best at giving instructions in the assembling and detonation of weapons of movie distraction. And Wahlberg, so muscled up he looks as if he's ready to explode, is serious and committed to the genre. We happen to be in a period when the youngish male stars are mostly light comedians. Wahlberg could be the actor that action movies have been looking for since Sly, Arnold, Harrison, Bruce, Jackie and Jean-Claude - all in their 50s or 60s - got too old to execute the leg lifts necessary to kick bad guys in the butt...
...stress caused by his impending deadline, the cartoon trivializes suicide and contributes to the casual attitude toward mental illness that is all too widely held in our society. Every time a piece like this is published, in the Crimson or elsewhere, the view that it is acceptable to make light of devastating illnesses is further entrenched in the minds of ignorant readers...
...decades of research on terrorism—involving confrontations with IRBs, Harvard, and the federal government—shed light on the special obstacles faced by academics hoping to study sensitive issues...
...reveal her priorities through action. Second, we believe that this question is the wrong one to ask. The right question to ask is whether or not Drew Gilpin Faust will take the right steps to improve the undergraduate experience, a question that we can only evaluate in the light of the following considerations...
...policy change was announced in light of a decision to increase the freshman class by about 30. But since the College has no plans to increase the size of the overall student body in the near future—a policy we wholeheartedly support—the increase in freshmen must be offset with a decrease in transfers. Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said, “We made the decision because admissions—which reads all the files—felt that the freshman pool of applicants was deeper…than...