Word: proclaimingly
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...their seventh years, Boston Fashion Week and Spring Fashion Weekend have remained secrets, well-hidden from many Bostonians. While large signs and unignorably heated and fully-accessorized white tents proudly proclaim the arrival of Seven on 6th in Bryant Park and other major city’s fashion weeks, no trumpets herald the renewal of the Beantown event. While not as grandiose or elaborate as New York’s Seven on 6th, the weekend is Boston’s own, from the sponsors to the press coverage. Rather than flying in models, designers and enormous white tents from...
...Whose rights are we protecting when we bar the broadcast of an execution? And how do we justify hiding the execution itself even as we loudly proclaim its efficacy as a deterrent to crime? Would a free broadcast of McVeigh's death serve a positive purpose by blunting our fascination with death - or would it just provoke further violence...
...years with a concert in Dubai. Thousands of Iranians crossed the Persian Gulf to hear the diva (who is banned from performing at home) ring in the Persian New Year last Wednesday. Although silenced by the Islamic revolution before many of them were born, even Iran's youth proclaim Googoosh as the preeminent icon of Iran's prerevolutionary social freedom. Her music has served as a unifying force amongst Iranians of all classes, both at home and in exile. TIME's Tehran correspondent Azadeh Moaveni met with Googoosh backstage and discussed the implications of her comeback for the future...
...question of biology. Those who consider homosexuality (a term under which I include every shade of the BGLT rainbow) as biological, or at the very least unchosen and unchangeable, might see no need to investigate further. But actions always entail choices, and those opposed to these choices can easily proclaim a doctrine of "hate the sin, love the sinner." Those suffering from kleptomania also have strong desires for immoral acts; their situation is monstrously unfair, but that doesn't make theft morally acceptable. Using biology as an excuse promotes an image of homosexuals as sick, diseased unfortunates, as lepers...
...true Leninist spirit, they proclaim that a "revolutionary situation" is upon us. The great masses are tired of being tyrannized by the capitalist robber barons (read: record companies) and the revolutionary leaders need only channel the rage of the masses to topple the bourgeois record companies and free humanity forever from the tyranny of the "music industry's corporate elite...