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With regard to globalization, giving foreign peoples the opportunity to drink Coca-Cola, eat at McDonald’s and listen to Britney Spears is not economic exploitation or imperialism. Are we culturally dominant? Sure. But we also believe in free markets. If, for example, Brazilians don’t like Big Macs, they’re not obligated to change their tastes. National Review’s Jonah Goldberg uses this analogy: “If the coolest guy in school wears a leather jacket and all the other kids follow suit, that’s hardly the same...
...anthropology, Davis spends almost all her time in music classes. She has taken Music 180r: “Performance and Analysis: Seminar” three times, and calls it her favorite: “The people who play in that class are such incredible musicians, such a joy to listen...
Small groups gathered to listen to the recitation throughout the day, and even passers-by “slowed down to read the sign and see what was going on,” said Daniel J. Poppers ’06, another of the readers...
...defines hatred as “the willingness to sacrifice personally to harm others,” suggests that the supply of hatred is determined by the possible political gains from inciting hatred, while the demand of hatred is reflected by the desire or willingness of the population to listen to hateful rhetoric...
...Such comments could come back to haunt Dean. If there is a central political reality in post-9/11 America, it is this: Voters won't be willing to listen to a candidate's ideas on the economy or any other domestic issue unless they are first convinced that he or she is a credible, competent guardian of national security. That's a hurdle that the Governor of Arkansas didn't have to clear in 1992, nor the Governor of Texas eight years later. "Security is very much on the table, as much as it was in 1960 with Kennedy...