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...Harvard’s major teaching hospitals, joined the Massachusetts Citizens United for Research Excellence (MassCURE), a group which was created in March to battle Romney’s expected veto. Quickly gaining over 30 institutional members across the state, MassCURE pushed to remove “ambiguous language?? about stem cell research from legislation and advocate for bills that would make Massachusetts “hospitable to embryonic stem cell research,” according to its website...
...seem nonsensical at first, but think about it: a chandelier blinking poetry in Morse code speaks about language, translation and the poignancy of obsolete technology. Likewise, the recording of slide-rule engravings presents us with the ghostly sound of forty year old writing—paradoxically highlighting language??s status as both a visual and sonic medium and questioning its extension through time. And the radio console is half celebratory monument and half nostalgic relic—both a commemoration of the leading role MIT radio played in exploring revolutionary music in the 1960s and 1970s...
...AOTC is also notable for its poetic language??especially near the middle of the film when Lucas exposes the curious dialectics of rough/coarse and soft/smooth. Framed within the grand love story of the film, young Anakin Skywalker compares Natalie Portman’s skin to the harsh sand of his home planet Tattooine. Lucas puts the ball in the audience’s court as he asks: What is the nature of smoothness? Roughness...
Making campus a safe space for everyone should not just be the priority of those for whom it is not a safe space. This is everyone’s responsibility, and student groups should not attempt to justify the use of insulting or hurtful language??they should actively avoid it. If that means being PC, then by all means...
...stand on every corner around you / I will always be right behind you.” It’s a rare moment on the album when the lyrical content—not great, but let’s be fair; it’s not their first language??mingles with the sound to mutual advantage. When the girls are singing together, it’s reminiscent of the sense of fun that was integral to the ideology of early MTV’s girly darlings, and we remember the verity of the Hotnights’ formation: these...