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...Declan Ganley, 40, has launched a telecoms firm, a timber trading company, a cable television operator, an online jewelry retailer and a finance house. But it is his latest venture that could end up having the biggest impact. In 2006 Ganley founded Libertas, a think tank that concentrated its scorn on the European Union. At the end of 2008 it became an E.U.-wide political party with the express aim of overhauling the institution it so often criticizes. "We are saddled with a tyranny of mediocrity," Ganley says. "It boggles the mind. Almost 80% of our laws now come from...
...reluctant to probe too deeply into Bush-era interrogation and detention policies, saying he'd prefer to look forward, not back. But this charitable attitude is bound to be tested by Cheney's take-no-prisoners strategy - in addition to defending Bush's record, the ex-Veep also poured scorn on Obama's financial policies. The White House responded with some scorn of its own. "I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy, so they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal," Robert Gibbs, Obama's press secretary, said at his daily briefing on Monday...
...term and indirect. Conservatism needs mass media too, to affect day-to-day politics: jam phone lines and pull the national conversation rightward. It needs Limbaugh and the many like-minded talkers elsewhere on the airwaves. Doubtless they could do their jobs better, as could the conservative writers who scorn them. But if Limbaugh did not exist, conservatives would have to invent him. And it would be hard to do - as liberals have found when they have tried and failed to come up with their own successful radio shows...
...country's long-lasting Marxist rebel group. For the next five years, the three were held hostage--many of their captors little more than brainwashed youths with guns--facing snakes, insects, disease and constant movement from one dank jungle camp to the next. But the character earning the most scorn in their lengthy account turns out to be a fellow captive. French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, whose rescue in the same mission that freed the authors made world headlines, comes off as a "frickin' princess" more interested in playing power games than in establishing solidarity with her fellow prisoners...
...critical eye towards the cutesy aesthetic of the twee tradition from which the band emerged. The band practically begs to be mocked; in fact, their self-identification with the shy kid who was bullied on the playground shows their position to be entirely contingent on this type of scorn and lashing out. But their self-awareness prevents them from lapsing into self-pity, and the result is an album that explores from all angles the ambiguous, awkward, and disorienting territory between the world of children and adults.—Staff writer Mark A. VanMiddlesworth can be reached at mvanmidd@fas.harvard.edu...