Word: ulterior
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...dead partying on campus, were lured by the rave’s uniqueness. The Harvard party scene is littered with rap-fueled grind-fests in which dancing is merely a means to an end. It was thus refreshing to witness undergrads in the ArtSpace earnestly working it, with no ulterior motives beyond the simple pleasures of booty-shaking. It is embarrassing to frantically wave around glow sticks (the hosts distributed about 500 of them) in desperate effort to keep the beat: Harvard students are not particularly graceful with their bodies. But Friday night’s attendees...
...Faculty to stop wasting the time of both its own members and of the students it governs, and to move forward on projects that actually matter. The debate over Professor Matory’s free speech motion is by its very nature suffused with bad feelings and suspicion of ulterior motives on both sides, and has brought out the worst in both its supporters and detractors. It is likely a good thing that most of the country has not found out that the Faculty spent two hours bickering over whether Harvard ought to explicitly support free speech...
...response to questions from TIME, a faxed letter from China's State Council Information Office said accusations that the PLA was involved in hacker attacks against overseas targets were "groundless, irresponsible and also have ulterior motives." The Chinese police, the letter said, had received no requests from overseas governments asking for investigations of Chinese attacks on their websites. But reports in Chinese newspapers suggest that the establishment of a cybermilitia is well under way. In recent years, for example, the military has engaged in nationwide recruiting campaigns to try to discover the nation's most talented hackers. The campaigns...
...calls by the ump are as much a part of baseball as home run records, rabid fans and watery beer, but a new study shows that an umpire's decision may have a disturbing ulterior motive: racism...
...goodwill is being reciprocated in Taiwan, where the suspicion that works from the mainland have ulterior political motives has almost entirely dissipated. When the terracotta army made its first trip to Taiwan in 2000, some in President Chen Shui-bian's independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party interpreted the exhibit as a veiled attempt by Beijing to whip up pro-China sentiment. This time around, no one so much as raised an eyebrow. "People used to ask why bring this or that production over," says Wu Jing-jyi, who formerly chaired the National Chiang Kai-shek Cultural Center...