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...high court ruled that Carlin’s puerile theatrics were not subject to First Amendment protection, but the narrow 5-4 margin in the FCC’s favor undermined any attempt to establish a definitive standard for indecency. Justice John Paul Stevens—writing for the majority—only confused the matter with his tortured use of metaphor...
...Narrow Escape Al-Zarqawi personally decapitates U.S. contractor Nicholas Berg on videotape. In the fall of 2004, a massive U.S.-led operation in jihadi-infested Fallujah fails to nab al-Zarqawi. Some reports suggest he was wounded in the fighting and escaped to Iran...
...right - RV is no Dumb and Dumber, that masterpiece of the moronic (which also featured the redoubtable Jeff Daniels), but it is also a nicely dishonorable addition to the small but often hilarious tradition of comedies in which the bourgeoisie get their comeuppance while navigating large vehicles along narrow and twisted roads. Anyone here remember Lucy and Desi in The Long, Long Trailer, way back in 1954? No? That?s too bad. But surely you recall Albert Brooks?s best movie, Lost in America (1991). Our movies - especially the supposedly funny ones - are so relentlessly middle class in outlook...
...about the track, “It’s good that Harvard is recognizing it.” Reception of the life science changes has not been entirely positive though. “While the old concentrations are a little broad...the new ones may be a bit narrow,” Jennifer J. Esch ’09 wrote in an e-mail. Esch, who described herself as “leaning towards” Molecular and Cellular Biology, also wrote that the changes are “adding stress” during a period of deadlines, papers...
...ignore. The opportunities for American college students to study abroad has fostered a craze to jump ship for a semester or a year and study overseas. Harvard has been especially assertive. But to operate under the impression that one must leave the country in order to gain perspective is narrow-minded. A disproportionate amount of Harvard students come from the East Coast and California and know little of the great cultural diversity in the thousands of miles in between. To a Manhattanite, a trip to rural Mississippi is probably a greater culture shock than a trip to Barcelona. Visiting...