Word: matters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...barbaric business, no matter how sophisticated the technology or how noble the cause. But since the Gulf War, TV audiences have been conditioned to expect military conflict to be a "surgical" process, in which the bad guys are zapped off video screens at the push of a button. As in a game of Doom, the videos shown during NATO media briefings give no sense of the shattered bones and ripped flesh that follow when the bomb camera image turns to fuzz. And not surprisingly, the alliance prefers not to show any footage from the bombs that may have strayed from...
...With student directors, no matter how goodthey are, you tend to second-guess them a bit,"she says...
Salter's language is simple and well-chosen, allowing these ideas to come through clearly. The rhyme is usually nicely understated; once or twice it becomes too contrived and in combination with the outwardly simple subject matter makes the poetry a little too cute and obvious...
...groups on campus than anyone realizes. And none of these groups were contacted during negotiations; not RUS, not our partners, not even administrators in Radcliffe Undergraduate Programs. We were not considered in the course of arrangements to merge the two schools because we as undergraduates don't seem to matter to Harvard administrators...
...challenge Harvard to prove to me that the merger took place because it wanted its female students to be full Harvard undergraduates. I challenge Harvard to prove to me that a piece of real estate doesn't matter more to them than...