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...critique of rampant prostitution in a 1996 song about papayas: go ahead, they sang, touch it; it's a national product. During the economic crisis following the Soviet collapse, music was the one thing that held the island together, a common passion for both revolutionaries and reactionaries. The government understood its power; that's why supergroup La Charanga Habanera was banned for months in the '90s after using a military helicopter to drop the group onstage for a stripteasing, innuendo-filled concert on national TV. It was, someone clearly decided, too decadent, too American...
...though, it will not be the creative paralysis that defines Bush. It will be his intellectual laziness, at home and abroad. Bush never understood, or cared about, the delicate balance between freedom and regulation that was necessary to make markets work. He never understood, or cared about, the delicate balance between freedom and equity that was necessary to maintain the strong middle class required for both prosperity and democracy. He never considered the complexities of the cultures he was invading. He never understood that faith, unaccompanied by rigorous skepticism, is a recipe for myopia and foolishness. He is less than...
...biggest endowment, which leads to all sorts of great puns,” said Fish. Despite mutual teasing and criticism, however, students said the rivalry does not run deep. “My sister probably threatened to disown me at some point, but overall I think she understood,” said Jeremy Patashnik ’12. His sister, Ariel Patashnik, is currently a senior at Yale, and stayed in his dorm room with her friends over the weekend. Students said they ultimately manage to rise above school and sibling rivalry due to a mutual apathy towards football...
...destinies, instead advancing the thesis that “outliers”—the so-called “best and the brightest”—are the result of the context in which their success took place. Outliers can’t be understood as isolated prodigies because success is not an individual phenomenon; successful people, Gladwell argues, never rise from nothing. This is hardly an uncontroversial claim in a culture that prides itself on being a meritocracy. Tales of 21st century self-made men (and women)—of J.K. Rowling writing...
...curbed by the sanctions as well. For Chan, both experiences are connected. He pointed to an image on the screen—a white-washed New Orleans house smeared with the word “Baghdad.” The author of that graffiti, he said, “understood that the same logic of criminal neglect that gave us New Orleans gave us the Iraq war.” Though Chan does not plan to put on more theatrical productions in the future, working on “Godot” has made it difficult to return to visual...