Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to prove herself as an actress, Madonna has tired her hand at everything from movie musicals to period pieces to thrillers. Needless to say, these attempts have been futile. The mere mention of her name in conjunction with any film is guaranteed to evoke chuckles if not full-fledged sighs. So, what's materials girl to do? Produce your own film in which you star as a Hollywood icon qua actress searching for legitimacy...
...thought and thought and couldn't quite come up with an appropriate and entertaining topic for the tenth of March. It's a limbo period--with winter pretty much over and spring not quite yet here (not to mention midterms)--so, with our usual penchant for apt weather comparisons, we thought of the ever-fascinating topic of spying. (And gossip, which is Harvard's equivalent of this noble institution, but that comes later...
...Dockham said the comparison was legitimate.He cited as an example the consent form thatparents of children in the Fernald experiment wereasked to sign. The form makes no mention ofradiation...
...even this presumptuous slogan is not as inappropriate as the "Peculiar Institution" campaign. Last year, the Coalition leaders demonstrated both their insolence and their stupidity when they compared the "plight" of minority students at Harvard to the unspeakable horrors of slavery. To even mention the two in the same breath is to trivialize the experiences of the African-Americans who suffered and died under slavery...
Last week Woolsey was on the Hill to defend the budget for the intelligence community he oversees and to complain about spending cuts. He did not mention the current budget figure of $28.5 billion -- which is supposed to be secret -- but argued that it should not be cut again. Though the U.S. has the best intelligence organizations in the world, he said, their real spending had been reduced 14% since 1990. Their capabilities, he warned, are now at a level "where we are skating on thin ice on a warm...