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...Vendetta” is the latest chapter in Hollywood’s newfound effort to be taken seriously. The past year has seen several films that try to speak not to the audience’s base instincts but rather to their intellects. However, Hollywood, for all its professed liberalism, does not change easily, and the quintessential icon of brainless entertainment has found the transformation into a sober critic a rather difficult one. The failure of “V for Vendetta” as political commentary, however, does not come from artlessness—there are moments of true...
...opinions from visitors to his political action committee (volpac.org) on immigration, annoyed his Senate Republican colleagues by pushing out an immigration reform bill last week. As the Senate Majority Leader, Frist usually allows Senate committees to work through legislation first, but on an issue very important to the GOP base, he didn't wait for the Senate Judiciary Committee before proposing his own legislation, appealing to worries about illegal immigration. Frist?s bill includes dozens of provisions to add funding and resources to guard the border and block potential illegal immigrants, and does not include a so-called guest worker...
...Muslim lands would touch off a similar response in places such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, frontline allies in the war on terror. The Abdul Rahman case highlights the limits on the freedom the U.S. has brought to Afghanistan, and will raise the ire of the Evangelical Christian political base of the GOP. But Washington will also be aware that the current political order may be as good as it gets right now, in terms of an Afghan government allied with the West. And if the priority is saving Mr. Rahman's life and preserving his freedom, turning the case into...
...people who are given a chance for self-awareness, self-discovery and self-expression - a chance to exhale - after having been oppressed, shackled, silenced and placed in the dark. The unfortunate thing is that terrorists and enemies of the free world have now seized on Iraq as a base from which to operate. The world must hope that the Iraqis resist them. Cosmas Uzoma Odoemena Sokoto, Nigeria Bring Back the Big Easy "The big blank canvas" [march 6], about the struggles the people of New Orleans are facing as they attempt to rebuild, made for sad reading. I spent...
...occurring within ethnic organizations themselves. For example, the current membership of Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) actually looks a lot like the Color Blind Students Association that Lurie called for. The Native American group counts three board members with no American Indian ancestry.Students who choose to join organizations based on ethnicities other than their own do so for a variety of reasons. “I’m really interested in Asian culture,” said Frommer, who is currently traveling in Japan and is preparing to write a senior thesis on health care in that country.Pace...