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...Talk to a Bush supporter, and you hear giddy things. Talk to a Bush skeptic, and you hear the end of human life as we know it. In Washington last week, almost all the scenarios were extreme. "If you tear up all the rules and toss them in the air," said Ashton Carter, a Defense official in the Clinton Administration, now agonizing at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, "the results can be really good or really bad - but they're definitely going to be really different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Poker Player in Chief | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...this is still a valuable, if one-sided, picture of what our soldiers are doing and thinking. And its quasi-propaganda --the tear-jerking goodbyes with sweethearts, the boilerplate (albeit sincere) talk about duty--hardly differs from much war news. In a way, the series is even subversive: the Bush Administration won the semantic battle to describe the struggle against terrorism as a war, but Profiles shows that the actual work looks more like policing. As with the battlefield reports Ellsberg pored over, it needs a skeptical eye--but that just makes its story that much more interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Battle on Two Fronts | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

Winning handily, Cole stopped on two separate occasions to tear off his cap and wipe his goggles clean...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Swimming Reclaims Eastern Title Over Tigers | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

While the movie is slated to premiere Senior Week, the finished product will be available in the first week of July. Graduation footage will be added, for maximum tear-jerker potential...

Author: By B.c. Presser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Having A Senior Moment | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

...compel the Harvard community to respect all viewpoints enough to let them be seen or heard. The battle the University and the council must ultimately fight is one of persuasion—to convince students that the correct way to fight the message of posters is not to tear them down, but to put up their own. Fortunately, most students who fiercely disagree with HRL have already taken this sensible route, retaliating with their own opinions through all outlets of Harvard’s marketplace of ideas. Although the council’s resolution is not without flaws, it nonetheless...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Spearheading Speech | 3/4/2003 | See Source »

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