Word: sordidly
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While the show's message is clear, the public response is questionable. The country certainly doesn't live in fear because "Cops" showed a few too many sordid details about life in southern Florida, and an argument could be made that the show simply serves as an extension for the increasingly violent soundbites distributed throughout the country during the nightly news. But one thing is for sure: the sense of paranoia and dependence on law enforcement the shows induce is riveting, contagious and a cause for alarm...
...underworld surfaces in Thomas Kelly's first novel, Payback, a look into the opulent 80s construction business that thrived on Reaganomics and mob violence. Kelly, who worked for ten years as a sandhog before graduating from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, brings his own underground expertise to a sordid story of hard men, hard neighborhoods, hard-to-break families ties and Mafia connections impossible to abandon...
First, reform the Evening Shuttle Van Service (formerly known as the more sordid Escort Service). Monitor the courtesy of often impatient and rude operators. Call students back when you say you will call them back. Add more vans to the three currently running from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. so that students will not have to wait more than 15 minutes for a van to pick them up. And, most importantly, either shift operating hours to 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. to accommodate those studying or playing down by the River, or extent the service from...
...Shawn C. Zeller '97, the Crimson's ombudperson, wrote a column questioning whether I had a previous record with the Ad Board that influenced its decision (no) and arguing that this was not an issue of freedom of the press. I would argue with Zeller's conclusion that this sordid affair has nothing to do with freedom of the press (I would not have been Ad Boarded had the "Prank Files" not been published), but I agree with him that the primary issue should be the legitimacy of the punishment...
...editorial, the Crimson staff declared that Agnew's attacks on the media, war resisters and others who disagreed with him "were discredited by their illogic when they were first made" and that his resignation proved them "to be the rankest hypocrisy as well." Examining Agnew's sordid political career should discredit myths regarding the Nixon legacy and should remind hubris-crazed hypocrites that the media and free speech are not so easily trampled underfoot. The end of any human life is always a tragedy. But we must not forget the kind of life Agnew lived and the damage he caused...