Word: crew
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LUTHER Campbell of 2 Live Crew was busted in Florida. A Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit was shut down in Ohio. Flag-burners were arrested in Texas. But while free expression is under attack across the nation, three laudable judicial and legislative decisions close to home indicate that the First Amendment is alive and well and living in Massachusetts...
...differences are a big deal--but they're justified. The response argues that the socioeconomic and ethnic diversity of recruited athletes justifies their lower academic standing. To this, we have several questions in response. Are you talking about every sport? Does that include crew? Fencing? How many minorities play on the hockey team? How many working-class students are recruited to play lacrosse? (Fitzsimmons told a Crimson reporter, "I think you know which sports we're talking about.") How does ethnic and socioeconomic diversity explain the excusal of academic deficiencies among legacies, who presumably come from some of the nation...
...country's identity. When Iraqi troops crossed the border, eight Kuwait Airways jets (four 747s, three 727s and a 767) and more than half the carrier's 5,500 employees were abroad, scattered from London to Bangkok. Managers set up temporary headquarters in Cairo, contacted enough employees to crew their remaining jets and pressed ahead with flights to Jidda, Dubai and Bahrain...
...Swedish automaker withdrew the ad, admitting that the sturdy Volvo had a little help: steel posts welded to the chassis. When Volvo filmed the commercial last June in Austin, Bear Foot initially crushed everything in its path, including a Volvo. In view of 400 hired spectators, the production crew beefed up the dwindling supply of Volvos with the steel posts. Angry spectators prompted a state probe. In a settlement, Volvo agreed to pay Texas $316,000 in investigative costs and to run apologetic newspaper ads. Last Friday the U.S. Hot Rod Association staged a rematch. The Volvos held up well...
...below the bed of the Channel waited for a thin steel probe, drilled from the British side, to pierce the wall of chalk marl in front of them. The 2-in.-diameter aperture opened by the probe could not be seen at first, but then the British crew sent a blast of compressed air through the hole, blowing out the last crumbs of marl...