Word: statements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dara Horn's most recent column (Opinion, April 29) was a biting critique of the Harvard billboard culture and delivered an honest statement about many Harvard personalities. Despite her candid arguments, I am disappointed with her forcing an unfounded marriage between the Harvard-Radcliffe Kendo Club and pornography. Certainly, just as Horn would not--even in jest--draw any groundless association between blatantly sexual advertising and any other campus group, she should not have done so with the Kendo Club...
Dara Horn's most recent column (Opinion, April 29) was a biting critique of the Harvard billboard culture and delivered an honest statement about many Harvard personalities. Despite her candid arguments, I am disappointed with her forcing an unfounded marriage between the Harvard-Radcliffe Kendo Club and pornography. Certainly, just as Horn would not--even in jest--draw any groundless association between blatantly sexual advertising and any other campus group, she should not have done so with the Kendo Club...
...station in Belgrade. A barrage of bombs hit the building before dawn, killing at least 10 of the estimated 70 people inside. But if the attack was brutal, it was also ineffectual. Serbian state TV was back on the air within six hours, broadcasting its regular fare, including a statement by the Serbian Information Ministry saying that "by targeting [Serbian TV], NATO aggressors have revealed criminal intentions that would make even Hitler wince...
...response of Richard Gephardt was typical. As ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, Gephardt felt compelled to release a statement, but there was about his words something wan and attenuated. "Ultimately," he said, "the answer will not be found in state legislatures or in the halls of Congress. The answer lies somewhere in the hopelessness and the hateful hearts of the children who have lost their way." Gephardt is an activist liberal, a voluptuary of governmental solutions, so his concession carries an interesting significance. You saw it from the political right too. "There's not a magic wand...
...Harvard is lucky to have a sizeable community of students devoted to reading, writing and generally appreciating poetry. I asked a number of people in the Harvard community why they thought poetry mattered, and received answers ranging from the bizarre statement of Hatim Belyamani '99, who claimed that poetry "is like a fermented milk shake. It can be cheesy but still quench your thirst" to Christian Lorentzen's '99 statement on the political power that poetry has had in the fight inKosovo: "Epic poetry is one of the roots of the conflict in Kosovo. TheSerb national epic immortalizes their defeat...