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...category. While it is the U.S.’ sovereign right to execute its inmates, and there is disagreement among philosophers as to the morality of capital punishment, it was still uniformly denounced in class as an abominable practice, somehow alien to Western norms. The seminar, then, employs ever-shifting criteria by which to gauge U.S. foreign policy, ensuring that almost every U.S. action is soundly criticized. This chameleon critique means that, should a student have the temerity to defend the United States on certain grounds, Professor Scott will always be prepared to shift the rationale for criticism. It does...
...games—and then it got into football,” Norton says.His first two years—1943 and 1944—The Game was not played due to World War II.Talking to him is like a trip through Harvard football history. The shift from playing games in even years in New Haven to their current location in Cambridge, the greatest players he’s seen, minutiae about Crimson football long forgotten by even the most devoted historians, and opinions about the quality of the league’s various stadiums...
Tomorrow Harvard will become more than an elite institution. For one day in the year, the school will shift its attention from academics to athletics, joining the likes of Michigan, Ohio State, and USC in the national Rivalry Week spotlight.When Yale (7-2, 5-1 Ivy) travels to Cambridge to take on the Crimson (7-2, 4-2) at 12 p.m. at Harvard Stadium, hopes will be high that the 123rd edition of The Game does not disappoint.Though it’s unlikely to top last year’s triple overtime thriller, this season’s edition will...
...that he was less focused on making a political statement than on creating compelling characters.“That’s where my heart is in the movie: just depicting life and showing it,” he said.In fact, though he didn’t work a shift at McDonald’s, Linklater did do his own character research for the movie, staying on various ranches, visiting industrial facilities, and speaking to Mexican immigrant workersHe didn’t try to jump the Mexican border, but he did have an interesting observation about crossing...
...claim that the Iraq war would have been successful if executed more competently, but nation-building—particularly in the Middle East—is a tall order regardless of leadership. I don’t mean to imply that Republicans should become completely isolationist, but a corrective shift in that direction would be appropriate. On a related note, Republicans should take greater care to reconcile support for intelligence and defense operations with a respect for civil liberties, the fundamental guarantors of limited government...