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...life at critical mass, Warren Beatty imagines a U.S. Senator who starts telling the truth about the powerful. He's nuts, of course, but the star, director, co-writer and rapster is in a reckless mood. His maniacally skillful movie is that Hollywood rarity: political satire with real, wounding bite...
...there had been a TV show Andrew Johnson: Presidency in Crisis, New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley would have been the star. Greeley, king of the pro-impeachment sound bite, called Johnson "an aching tooth in the national jaw, a screeching infant in a crowded lecture room," and said, "There can be no peace or comfort till he is out." And plenty of Congressmen would happily have offered up the 19th century version of talk-show rant. One Republican Representative denounced Johnson as "an ungrateful, despicable, besotted traitorous man--an incubus." Be grateful, Bill Clinton...
...that first goal but then we didn't keep the pressure on," Coach Katey Stone said. "Northeastern is the kind of team that, if you give them a little bit of a bite, they're going to take it. They got their goal and then they started...
...They want to show that they realize the sensitivity and complexity of the issue and respect the exchange of ideas. However, their eagerness to prove what open minds they have backfires. The hesitant beginning leads to a hesitant discussion. Fear of saying the "wrong thing" obscures honest talk. People bite their tongues, and a woefully inadequate status quo remains in place. As a result, the "open dialogue" becomes quite closed...
...common ground" among us. We can't fault it for its shortcomings; we should fault ourselves for not overcoming the narrow and safe worlds that we find when we settle into familiarity. Diversity should be a common goal. Yet first we must interact in a real way, not bite our tongues as the panelists at Monday night's forum did. We will not find our "common ground in human experience" unless we first agree to speak frankly and explore our uncommon ground. Marshall I. Lewy '99-'00 is a history and literature concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears...