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Mika C. Morse ’05 spent eight days in Nicaragua with her freshman seminar, “The Latin American Political and Economic Landscape,” taught by Sylvia Maxfield, a visiting professor. But their trip was hardly handed to them on a silver platter. Morse took the lead in seeking out funding sources and applying for grants to pay for travel expenses for the entire class, while other students oversaw the logistical issues of the trip. Eventually Morse was able to secure funds, primarily from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American studies...
...primary mode of criticism was not that the government was trying to inflict misery on the Vietnamese population, nor was it that we had alienated ourselves from world opinion. Rather, as a courageous veteran of the war (he was awarded three purple hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star) he criticized the Vietnam War because of the devastating effects it had on our men in uniform—the 58,000 deaths, the thousands of injuries, the conditions of fear and deprivation in which the soldiers lived and the horrible ramifications war had on their families. His most famous...
...prepare for the role, Silver met with Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and went to porn sets (strictly in the interest of craft!) to chat up starlets. "They have a term for everything," he marvels. "They're talking about D.P.s, and I'm nodding knowingly. It turns out that it means 'double penetration.'" Silver says he considers Goldman a "compartmentalizer." "Nobody wants to think of themselves as a bad person," he says. "He has elaborate rationalizations...
...This is a smart show with a lot of visual pop, and the Roam-Goldman, ego-id dichotomy is especially intriguing. (Roam represents how America votes at the ballot box; Goldman, how we vote with our wallets.) But the first two episodes are too dour and somber, especially when Silver is not onscreen. Perhaps because the producers want to avoid glamorizing porn with too light a tone, Skin is so high-mindedly determined to depict porn as a scourge or a big-money business that it forgets that porn would not exist if it wasn't also, for someone, pleasurable...
BBCA owes its rapid U.S. expansion in good measure to Discovery Communications, the company, based in Silver Spring, Md., that owns the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel and other cable networks. As a joint-venture partner with the BBC, Discovery provided start-up funds for BBCA, agreed to cross-promote its shows on Discovery channels, sell ads for BBCA and work out distribution deals with cable and satellite providers...