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Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) was a have-it-all kid who, upon graduating from college, resolved to flee his family for the Alaskan wilderness. Is Christopher a truth seeker, a defiant brat or some unknowable other? Director Sean Penn, adapting the Jon Krakauer bio-book, makes no judgments. He slowly spins this into a parable of one man's need for revelation, isolation and chilly transcendence...
...wish I could say I was surprised. In truth, Pats fans already knew that Belichick doesn't play by Marquis of Queensberry rules. This February former linebacker Ted Johnson alleged that Belichick made him practice even after he suffered a concussion and that today he has brain damage so severe that he can barely get out of bed. But in Boston those earlier revelations--like these new ones--haven't hurt Belichick's popularity a bit. And there's only one thing that could: losing...
More generally, the quashing of Summers’ speech points to a troubling trend in academia. Increasingly, the unrestricted marketplace of ideas that must form the heart of any university worth the name is being poisoned by a perverse pressure to conform truth to political agenda and stifle any speaker who espouses uncomfortable or invonveneint opinions. In the present case, the culprits are academics who fashion themselves as progressives eager for social justice and tolerance, but the other side of the political spectrum is no less guilty in others. This situation is alarming and dangerous. If academic freedom cannot exist...
...first sight, these shirts were shocking and even discomforting, and they still are. Is the wearer, you wonder, living with the virus? If so, why would he or she want to broadcast this painful truth to complete strangers? If not, what could possibly be the impetus to draw attention in such a way? Does he or she purport to understand experiences that he or she cannot fathom living...
...troop presence in Iraq. There are simply limits to how long the U.S. military can operate at this pace. The President is claiming that the additional 30,000 troops who arrived in Iraq as part of the surge can now return home because they have accomplished their mission. In truth, they are returning home because it is impossible to keep 160,000 soldiers and Marines in Iraq indefinitely...