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Carlson’s name has become a synonym for the activist-endorsed development plan for the neighborhood—a plan that aims to strictly regulate the height and density of future Harvard buildings and make the statements emblazoned on Carlson’s sign a reality...

Author: By Jessica R. Rubin-wills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Neighbors Tired of Living in Harvard’s Shadow | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...Valid’] is certainly not a synonym for ‘criminal,’” he said. “It’s a common English word well-known to everyone...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUPD Pares Down Campus Crime Logs | 7/11/2003 | See Source »

...boring answer is, Nobody's. (The sanctimonious one is, The truth.) The real question is whether the role of the press in war extends to maintaining morale--and to what extent "maintaining morale" is a synonym for "not ticking off the viewers." Arnett's crime was that he "created a perception" of bias, to use the standard weasel words. Worse, he created a perception of the opposite bias from that which, as is clear to anyone with sight, MSNBC wants to convey. The network flies a flag in its lower left-hand corner and uses the military's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Flag Is Bigger? | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

...environment such as Harvard, where political correctness and cultural sensitivity are all the rage, how can everyone get away with insulting the Midwest all the time? What is it with the use of Middle America as a synonym for the unenlightened? Yeah, people in the Midwest hunt and pray to Jesus Christ, but that doesn’t mean that the region is full of low-brow hicks. My experience with people at Harvard is that they apply stereotypes to the Midwest in ways that they would be outrageously offended by if the same kind of simple-minded stereotypes were...

Author: By Sam A. Winter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Who You Calling a Hick? | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

...over the entire 20th century and laid the groundwork for the 21st. The choice: "the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe," whose work transformed all the key fields in our age of science and technology. Einstein's "humanity and extraordinary brilliance made ... his name a synonym for genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 75th Anniversary Of Person of the Year | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

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