Word: witching
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...Emily F. Oster ’02 economics is about more than supply and demand. The 24-year-old has conducted research on topics from witch trials to AIDS—and she’s only a second-year Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...Buttiglione of espousing "19th century values." But Carlo Giovanardi, Italy's Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and a Buttiglione ally, says a "Taliban" mentality has consumed his opponents: "We haven't seen an attack against religious freedom like this since the end of World War II. It's a new witch hunt." One of the Vatican's most outspoken Cardinals, former U.N. emissary Renato Raffaele Martino, lashed out at what he called a "new Holy Inquisition" led by a "powerful cultural, economic and political lobby ? against all that is Christian...
Tatar calls this the Turkish Delight Syndrome, after a student who read about the candy in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and grew to think of it as having almost magic properties. It wasn’t until years later that he actually tried the stuff, and discovered, much to his chagrin, that he didn’t like the taste...
Amid complaints about Blair Witch-style camerawork and flat, reality-show type dialogue, their principal criticism is of the highly ambiguous blend of reality and fiction, which leaves them wondering whether they should trust anything the film says. Only the credits (which list the names of actors who played each role) indicate that it is a work of fiction...
...know why there was a question mark in Klein's title phrase "America Divided?" I have been around since the Franklin Roosevelt Administration and have never seen anything like the divisions today. The public reaction to the McCarthy witch hunts in the 1950s, the 1954 court decision on separate-but-equal schooling, the 1964 civil rights legislation and the 1974 Watergate affair did not exhibit the deep schisms apparent in the U.S. today. The divisions are the worst since the Civil War. RALPH CRAIG Amherst, Mass...