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...report, titled "The Blue Ribbon Review of Nuclear Weapons Policies and Procedures," caused a stir in February after a summary of its findings identified an overall slip in nuclear weapons safety that allowed a B-52 bomber to carry six live nuclear warheads across the U.S. last year. The report led U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to force the resignations of the Air Force's top civilian and military leaders earlier this month...
...rickety ceiling fans stir the stale air in a cramped room in New Delhi where 10 men hunch over bright fabrics, sewing shorts to be sold overseas. "I get paid 24 rupees [56 cents] for every piece I stitch," says 31-year-old Amjad Ali. "But I'm sure it's very expensive when it sells abroad." Ali works a lot of overtime at this garment subcontractor, with no holidays, yet he can still barely support his wife...
Wang, who had graduated from Dartmouth just three years earlier, spoke at Yale, Columbia, and Princeton before coming to Harvard. Wang’s mission was to stir up pro-segregation sentiment among students at Ivy League colleges and to try to organize campus branches of the White Citizens’ Councils, according to a Crimson report at the time...
...context of cutting off financial aid fund for non-registrants, was a bigger issue that year, earning mention in a Crimson recap of the 1982-1983 academic year as an issue that had occupied the campus’ attention. But even that article took care to show that the stir over the draft registration was limited: apart from an October rally on the steps of Memorial Church to oppose draft registration, little else happened...
...course, the notion of discourse inspired by art isn’t, in itself, shallow or boring. There is a long and venerable tradition of using shock to stir the art-appreciator’s conscience. Surrealist shock-art sought to tear open the subconscious, politicizing the personal realm of Oedipal complexes and bourgeois sexuality. And not all controversial modern ideas are petty and narcissistic. German artist Gregor Schnedier was recently pilloried for trying to bring real death into an art gallery; he has constructed a room for dying and has offered it to anyone who wants...