Word: crass
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...Members of the Bush Administration, of course, are not so crass as to admit that their aims in Iraq are imperialist. Yet U.S. soldiers are already finding themselves in situations miserably familiar to those of the old imperial powers. Take the deaths last week in Fallujah. Young soldiers firing on demonstrators among whom agents provocateurs with weapons may (or may not) have been hiding - we've seen this movie before, from India to Algeria to Ireland. Many of the Administration's statements on Iraq reveal a cast of mind last exercised by those with ostrich-feather plumes on their hats...
After enduring two painful losses at Dartmouth on Saturday—losses highlighted by crass taunting from the Big Green student section—Harvard needed a sweep yesterday to advance to the Ivy League Championship Series...
When a government recklessly expends the lives of its young for crass motives of profit and power—always claiming that its motives are pure and moral (“Operation Just Cause” was the invasion of Panama and “Operation Iraqi Freedom” in the present instance)—it is violating its promise to the country. It is the country that is primary—the people, the ideals of the sanctity of human life and the promotion of liberty. War is almost always (one might find rare instances of true...
...most intelligent films as a double feature. Punch-Drunk Love, the latest triumph from director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Boogie Nights), is a shining comic love story with powerful, artifice-free turns from Adam Sandler and Emily Watson; Philip Seymour Hoffman also has a few funny moments as a crass Utah entrepreneur. Meanwhile, Roger Dodger follows a suave but immature ladies’ man (Campbell Scott, in one of the year’s best performances) through a night in New York City as he shows his high schooler nephew the city’s romantic ropes. Wednesday, April...
...preeminence. “People take us very seriously,” he says. “That’s the one thing I suppose we have a leg up on other companies around is that Harvard is a great brand name. The brand, if you get crass, is a good thing...