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...appointed ombudsman (“Ombuds and Upwards,” Oct. 24) regrettably uses interchangeably the terms “ombudsperson,” “mediator,” and “arbitrator.” While there are some differences between the first two terms??a mediator, unlike an ombudsman, normally does not investigate, he primarily facilitates communication between the parties—there is a critical difference between these two and an arbitrator. An arbitrator is a private judge who renders a binding decision, which would be inappropriate for an ombudsman...
...weeks alone in proportion to Israel’s population, then there were in fact more Israeli victims, by percentage, than Americans who perished on Sept. 11. With this in mind, Israel’s response to these attacks has been—both in proportional and absolute terms??much more restrained than the U.S. war, which is, for that matter, only in its beginning stages...
Kristy M. Johnson ’02 outlines a series of regrets, frustrations and desires in her role as a future teenage mom in the short skit, “Choice.” Instead of framing the abortion debate in its typical terms??as a choice between life or death—abortion becomes an economic, social and racial issue as well...
...concerns about funding—or even mid-terms??seemed distant last night as the crowd rallied to band member Corrigan’s teasing...
...free / I don’t know / I have a feeling every form of media is fucking with our heads / And filling us full of shit.” Throughout the album, there is a clear and unequivocal antipathy expressed—almost always in highly confrontational and profane terms??to various sorts of authority and repression. In “Censorshit” the band complains about—you guessed it-censorship: “Everyone has heard the bullshit lines / You hear all the rest of the fucking lies / And they keep on covering...