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...hectic week, but I got an opportunity to shape a policy area and get to know the Governor as a leader and a person,” Chen said...
...doesn’t help with the ambiguity. However, what it does suggest is a topical treatment of an ominous, dark, and tenuous subject. Wings outstretched and beak ever so sharp, the dark bird is fierce and threatening. Yet the blotches of water soften the animal’s shape and remind us that this is, alas, a work of fiction. Nobel laureate Doris Lessing’s name is megalomaniacally scrawled in regal yellow in the center of the cover, leaving little room for the actual title of the book. Over-compensating for something, Doris? The Brief Wondrous Life...
...heavy reliance on informants in terrorism cases. In drug cases, after all, no one usually gets arrested until someone actually has some drugs. Terrorism cases are harder. "If you send a source in, and he comes back with a kilo of cocaine, you're in pretty good shape," says the FBI's Cummings. "If I send a source into a terrorism operation, and he comes back and says, 'O.K., here's what these guys are planning,' then what do I have? Just the source's word. There's still plenty of work left to do to validate the source...
...target audience. When such understanding is lacking, one ought not be surprised at backlash, or in artistic counterpoints that take place (deconstructions like “The Mikado Project,” for example, or “M. Butterfly.”) As art has the power to shape our perceptions of reality, the audience has the right of information, the responsibility of response.N. Kathy Lin ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...There was nothing subtle about official attempts to shape the election result. Opposition parties and leaders were harassed, the electronic media relentlessly flattered Putin's achievements, and state employees were pressured to turn out and vote for his United Russia party. In Chechnya, the breakaway province bombed and bludgeoned into quiescence by Putin since taking office in 2000, some 99.4% of the vote went to his party...