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...thing I would like the Americans to realize is that you cannot have democracy without a free judiciary. In the West an independent judiciary came several centuries before full democracy. In England, from where you get all your values historically, the chief justice was exercising the power of habeas corpus in the early 17th century. An independent judiciary is the plinth upon which the structure of democracy was constructed. Had the courts not been independent for 200 years, the non-landholding gentry would never have won the right to vote. Independence of the courts preceded democracy. You see what...
...lengths (“While We Wait” is only one and a half minutes, while others hover between two and five minutes) do create a feeling of spontaneity, but this alone is not enough to make his sixth studio album stand out from the rest of the corpus. —Reviewer Eric M. Sefton can be reached at esefton@fas.harvard.edu...
...What are the odds that you and Paul McCartney will appear together onstage again? -Martha Daniels, Corpus Christi, TexasEh, fifty-fifty...
It’s no secret that this reporter has a crush on Thomas L. Friedman. Last year, I assessed the 2006 literary corpus of everyone’s favorite New York Times columnist and part-time economic cheerleader. And now, it’s time to look at his most notable themes and motifs of 2007—a year that was actually pretty depressing for Friedman-watchers! Without further ado… (5) Crushing Pessimism! Whoa, this one came out of nowhere! Granted, it didn’t pervade all of his columns—indeed, he remains...
...techno melody. The genius returns in the pounding thrill of songs like “The Prime Time of Your Life / Brainwasher / Rollin’ & Scratchin’ / Alive,” which bring out the power of some of the less popular tunes of the Daft Punk corpus. The new magnetism they create with overly repetitious “Steam Machine” and “Brainwasher” makes this album an effort at redeeming themselves after their last subpar release, “Human After All.” For all the flack that...