Word: plainly
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...Plain Speaking Joe Klein's column on John Kerry's reluctance to make statements that are controversial or negative, heeding the advice of his political consultants, was right on target [Aug. 30]. Kerry is headed for defeat because he seems to be a politician who test-markets his every utterance, whereas President George W. Bush, love him or hate him, comes across as a man who means what he says and doesn't stick his finger in the air checking to see which way the wind is blowing before he speaks. Nicky Billou Toronto...
Along with boosting the number of uniformed and plain-clothed patrollers, HUPD also replaced the defunct Safety Walk program with the expanded Harvard University Campus Escort Program (HUCEP). These student escorts, trained by HUPD and unmistakably visible in their brightly colored HUCEP vests, patrol the streets and offer to walk with students from 10:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday and until 3:00 a.m. on weekends. Due to the increased presence of HUCEP escorts, students have taken advantage of this useful service in turn. Since February 20 last year, 711 students received a walking escort, according...
Friday’s column would have us believe that House Committees (HoCos) and student groups were in serious danger of not getting funded. That is just plain misleading. The council has constitutional guarantees against that, and enough money to live up to the commitment. Fully 70 percent of all council money must go to student groups via the grant system. And there is a strong precedent for allocating at least 20 thousand dollars to the HoCos every semester. And the recent trend has been to increase the funding going to these groups. Last year, student groups and HoCos...
Shireen Khan, 19, in running pants, a plain white shirt, Reeboks and a lavender hijab, was waiting in line for the Nitro with two female friends. She pooh-poohed the notion that the day's event might be a kind of refuge for an overscrutinized community. "It's not about that," she said. "I come here twice a year, and I like it, but today there's good halal food, and there's prayer. We have so many friends in the tristate area, we never see each other, and today everybody's here." Her cousin Soofia Tahir suspected there might...
...invasion of Iraq a "catastrophic success," which he defined as "being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day." For those who are unfamiliar with Orwellian Newspeak or doublespeak, catastrophic success translates as failure in plain English...