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...wartime such lines grow fuzzy and indistinct compared with the bold line that separates life and death, and this was the line where they chose to make their stand, their professional codes of conduct be damned. When one is lost in a sandstorm, deafened by artillery and surrounded by primal cries of agony, an ethical lapse can be a moral leap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When All The Lines Disappear | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

...force of primal disorder; we are a society afflicted by the illusion of orderliness. We have been so buffered by the carefully demarcated rules of television that we lack the intellectual equipment to deal with chaos (even the events of 9/11--talk about shock and awe!--were carefully groomed. The most shocking images, the bodies falling from the sky, were generally kept out of view). Afghanistan, Kosovo, the first Gulf War--each a video game played from 15,000 ft.--only added to our delusion of control. We are not so lucky this time. This is an actual war; there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The PG-Rated War | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...force of primal disorder; we are a society afflicted by the illusion of orderliness. We have been so buffered by the carefully demarcated rules of television that we lack the intellectual equipment to deal with chaos (even the events of 9/11 - talk about shock and awe! - were carefully groomed. The most shocking images, the bodies falling from the sky, were generally kept out of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The PG-Rated War | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

Slipping on the ice during primal scream. Those intimate encounters in the Widener stacks. Commencement ceremonies in Tercentenary Theatre. In their Senior Class DVD, three creative seniors promise to capture all of these misty memories—and more...

Author: By B.c. Presser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Having A Senior Moment | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

...billionaire” among the titles to be chosen through a web survey. The details of the half-hour main feature are being kept under wraps. Long is willing only to divulge cameos by Domna and the Harvard University Police Department, as well as plenty of primal scream action...

Author: By B.c. Presser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Having A Senior Moment | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

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