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...interesting idea...It’s aimed to titillate.” However, the creators of “The Hard Core” also plan to incorporate veritable economic and sexual facts, providing the viewer with real social analysis. Though the comedy is somewhat outlandish, the creators emphasize that it is an important experiment in Harvard filmmaking. “The Hard Core” will be accompanied by a Harvard course website imitation. “Lecture videos” will be posted, along with a blogspot managed by the actors. Harvard students will also be able...
...deride a centrist Republican and veteran for his rejection of your outlandish brand of conservatism but in the same breath you trivialize and mock the heroes who bravely fought against the tide of Nazism, something the “true conservative” you seek would never do. Of course, every argument can be reduced to comparisons with Hitler; most people just have the integrity and good sense not to do so. I would imagine that the Nazis enjoyed hunting, but I have not yet heard even the most dyed-in-the-wool liberals use this fact as an argument...
...work is that the simplest explanation is often the correct one. But that maxim has been obliterated in the case of John Darwin, the missing British kayaker who surfaced this week, claiming amnesia, more than five years after vanishing in the North Sea. In this case, the wildest, most outlandish criminal conspiracy theories increasingly appear to be right on target...
...life story. While Watson, as one of the most important American scientists of the 20th century, has some fascinating anecdotes to share, his shallow and often useless advice fails to leave a significant impact and is indicative of the sort of socially disconnected mind that would casually make such outlandish statements...
...Oddly, the crackdown is occurring at a time when large, excessive tattoos are more popular than ever. Last year a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology found that 89% of the men and 48% of the women who wear tattoos have conspicuous and sometimes outlandish designs on their hands, necks, arms, legs, toes and feet. "We are seeing more tattoos than ever before," says Ronald Davis, chief of police at East Palo Alto, where officers are required to hide their ink with clothing or bandages...