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...Herald found itself in a whirlwind of controversy after publishing graphic photographs of a bloody Victoria Snelgrove, the Emerson student killed during Red Sox rioting in Boston. Any didactic dimension of the photos was lost on hordes of appalled readers. Though the paper later issued a next-day apology for this classless stunt, the damage had been done...
...Philosophy of Law”—the oftentimes unstructured nature of discussions can be less than satisfying. This is not to deny that discussion is a fundamentally good thing. Ideally, we get to share ideas, challenge beliefs and get drunkenly swept away into the whirlwind vortex of passionate opinions and academic interchange. But when one tangential question leads to another, students can get caught up in all the minor nuances of ideas, until by the end Little Red Riding Hood has stepped off the forest path with very little hope of ever returning. As Sahil K. Mahtani...
...Paradoxically, at a time when America should be harvesting the fruits of its many beneficial policies, it has been the target of a whirlwind of protest and disillusionment in the region. American standing in Asian public opinion has never been lower. The reasons for this are complex. Many Americans would like to believe that it is only the Bush Administration that is unpopular. Actually, many Asian ?lites preferred Bush over Kerry due to the President's proven tough stand against terrorism and protectionism. The structural reason for the deepening disillusionment with America is the growing perception in Asia (and perhaps...
...ornamental given the song material, and at times (“Where is My Mind?”) just plain silly. Particularly excessive is the disc’s final, whopping, fifteen-minute version of “Planet of Sound,” which expands the whirlwind-punch of the two-minute original into a lumbering hurricane (the phrase “fucking around” is repeated over forty-two times). With a few debatable moments, none of these songs is really better than the original version, and though Disc Two has more for a non-devotee...
Just as a hurricane spins off tornadoes, this debate creates its own whirlwind of questions: If some people are more spiritual than others, is it nature or nurture that has made them so? If science has nothing to do with spirituality and it all flows from God, why do some people hear the divine word easily while others remain spiritually tone-deaf? Do such ivied-hall debates about environment, heredity and anthropology have any place at all in more exalted conversations about the nature...