Word: polarizer
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Black and white: the phrase suggests two polar opposites and a debate that can be boiled down into simple, irreconcilable positions. In an American context, given the country’s long history of racial division, the phrase has more loaded associations. So vast is this rift that our discourse on race has assumed a corresponding dichotomy: current discussions about race inevitably consist of “for” or “against” arguments about a limited number of policy topics. An intellectual who refuses to bow to these seemingly rigid dualities, then, both replenishes...
...expect to see Budweiser's "Whassup" guys belting out America the Beautiful, or the Coca-Cola polar bears waving Old Glory when the first commercial break in Super Bowl XXXVI kicks off Sunday. Although the war on terror continues, advertising agencies preparing spots for what is historically a day to showcase their best work say they will steer well clear of overt patriotic messages. Sensitive to charges that some ads appearing in the months after Sept. 11 crossed the line of good taste (and didn't help their clients either), agencies plan to fill the 30-sec. spots, which cost...
Harvard can relax a bit in its upcoming exhibition game, at home on Jan. 27 against the Conneticut Polar Bears, the former team of U.S. Olympian Angela Ruggiero...
...flip side. When the AO swings negative, the circling Arctic winds weaken and cold air descends from the polar region, leading to below-normal temperatures across the hemisphere. The AO seesaws every winter, and appears to be drifting back to the negative now, at least momentarily. Combine that with an El Nino- and La Nina-free forecast, says the NWS, and the balmy fall just may have been a prelude to a frightful winter...
When Ruggiero and Chu return from the Olympics, it will hardly be the first time the two have played together. Although Ruggiero is two years older, they won national championships together with the Connecticut Polar Bears select team and both attended the same high school, Choate Rosemary Hall. There they both played hockey, and both were goalies for the Choate women’s soccer team...