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...cameras are concerned, acknowledging the irony implicit in the location's name. Fisher is, so far as we can tell, monomaniacal. She can't walk through a toy store, for example, without noticing some object that she can use to vivify her message. In the film she takes particular pride in some molds that can turn Jello into a model of the human brain. She uses these, she says, to demonstrate how dark thoughts and bad words can worm their way into the human cortex. Before the summer session begins, she blesses her camp's fairly sophisticated audio-visual system...
Civic involvement is always a vital duty, but this year campaigns are of particular importance. Although this is not a presidential election year, the stakes in national politics are almost as high as they were in 2004. The election will broadly impact our nation’s future, shaping everything from environmental policy to tax policy, from foreign relations to social welfare programs. Pollsters are predicting that there are enough races that are too close to call that one or both houses of Congress could change hands...
...that has tightened considerably in the past months. If the rest of the Senate races are returned to the incumbent or incumbent’s party, a victory for the Democrats in Pennsylvania would even the Senate at 50 seats apiece. Because of the closeness and importance of this particular race, both the HRC and Dems are planning October campaign trips to the Keystone State in order to support their respective candidates...
...died an ordinary death in Iraq, at least by today's standards: a roadside bomb exploded as she led her platoon in a convoy south of Baghdad on Sept. 12. But what makes this death so difficult in a sea of violence is just how extraordinary this particular soldier...
...Raphael was the way they were able to safeguard their sense of duty from whatever doubts or insecurities crept in about the mission. In the classroom, I watched Perez's classmates debate the successes and failures of the current U.S. occupation strategy. They learned about the dangers of this particular war, from watching videos of an IED explosion to discussing the fate of West Point graduate Gen. Eric Shinseki, who was forced into retirement for contradicting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's estimates about how many troops would be needed in Iraq. But outside of the classroom, the cadets still mustered...