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...defense contractors. "In fact, Star Wars never died," says TIME's Mark Thompson. "It went from butterfly to moth to larva to caterpillar; which means, basically, from weapons in space to weapons on the ground. And the Pentagon now talks about putting some sensors in space, creating a "thin" system that could stop five or ten missiles but not thwart a massive attack." Thompson says that Forbes may not be taking a big political risk in speaking up for some sort of anti-ballistic missile system. "Polls show that, depending on how you ask the question, Americans are concerned when...
...disconfirm the valid presence of African-Americans at Harvard. Symbols have consequences. As race is America's" original sin," we will never be able to regard the "race problem" as "solved;" and even here in a community the celebrates rationality, civility and diversity, it is only a thin veneer of these admirable qualities that keeps in check the passions and paranoias that are always lurking just beneath the surface of our discourse. So I should not be surprised that a memorial to the southern dead at Harvard would seem to call into question Harvard's own commitment to the true...
This last message is perhaps the most troubling, especially in light of the "backlash" described by Susan Faludi '81: the promotion of essentially sexist stories under a thin veneer of feminism. Rather than a cause for celebration, "Waiting to Exhale" sends mixed messages which should be cause for alarm...
...channel's Talk Soup, swipes his scenes from Hollywood belle du jour Julia Ormond and nearly matches Harrison Ford for easy radiance. In his first major film role, Kinnear seems comfy-cozy on the big screen, humanizing a character--Ford's playboy brother--who could easily be a thin, tennis-anyone anachronism. "He has a lot of charm," says Sydney Pollack, who first sought Tom Cruise for the role. "You like him immediately." No wonder: the play of emotions in Kinnear's eyes is subtle, suggestive; he makes contact enough to break a girlish heart. Sabrina may be sinking...
Food samples will be available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The student groups performing between noon and 10 p.m. will include the Harvard Band, the Gilbert and Sullivan Players and the On Thin Ice improvisation group...