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...event had not been sufficiently well-publicized on campus. The day was advertised in the Calendar of Opening Days distributed to freshmen and in e-mails and flyers. But volunteer Michael F. Qian ’11 said that students heard about the event mostly by “word of mouth.” During the afternoon barbecue, three bystanders stared at the white tent outside the Science Center in bewilderment. “It’s a bloody disgrace that this wasn’t publicized,” said Jonathan P. Cummins...
...Iranian parliament’s resolution uses the word “terrorist” rather liberally and, given conventional definitions, incorrectly. But U.S. lawmakers should think twice about condemning this propagandist political move. The American government, in conducting its “war on terror” is no stranger to semantic sleights of hand, displaying a tendency to label (or mislabel) just as egregiously as the Iranian parliament...
...Congress’s recent resolution labeling the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG) a “foreign terrorist organization.” Supposedly, Iran’s longstanding support for terrorist groups like Hezbollah and its current support for Iraqi insurgents justifies the “T” word. But this argument has many problems, including inaccuracy and meaninglessness...
...meaningless, especially since it is only a non-binding “sense of the Senate” resolution, which cannot officially influence the president’s foreign policy. The move is generally recognized as symbolic posturing designed to aggravate relations. It also reduces the meaning of the word “terrorism” from actions characterized by their deliberate use of civilian death and terror to further a goal, to a nasty word used to describe those we don’t like...
McCain has indicated that he, too, will accept matching funds. He has begun to climb back in the polls, and last week, began his first television ads. But the third-quarter number will be closely watched to see whether his campaign has any real claim to viability. Word in Republican circles is that McCain got some boost with a powerful and intensely personal fund-raising letter he sent out in July that bluntly addressed his campaign's dire situation. "I'm sitting here at 12:33 a.m. at my desk - all alone, writing you this letter," it began. "My wife...