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...liberty, entrepreneurship, equality, patriotism. From the Boston Tea Party to this week’s election, the Bay State has proven itself the reliable defender of American ideals before there was even a formal America. The same democratic impulses that spawned the colonial town meeting live on in a vibrant local government and the spirit of civic-mindedness. The same emphasis on equality and justice that gave us the nation’s first abolitionist newspaper endure in our continuing quest for civil rights. So, after an election in which a plurality of voters touted “values?...
Everything from the gothic scenery to the story’s vaudevillian tone seeps through Guillermo Navarro’s vibrant photography and Del Toro’s script, as full of thrills as it is of an anti-formulaic, self-aware logic. Ron Perlman, of TV’s Beauty and the Beast fame, has the chops (and the eyebrows and the jawbones) to deliver Hellboy’s throwaway one-liners and punches with the appropriate devil-may-care élan: he’s Dirty Harry with a penchant for beer and pancakes, a superhero-everyman...
...microphone. While they mostly performed covers of famous early rock favorites like “Great Balls of Fire,” “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Johnny B. Goode,” they did have a few original compositions, including a vibrant rendition of the nursery rhyme “Three Blind Mice...
Billing himself as the “death dog with the hog log,” Ellroy involved the audience immediately with his vibrant demeanor and booming voice. Amid ever increasing laughter, he thanked them for coming and “taking time off from your drug habits, your sex lives and your misguided efforts to unseat President Bush...
...rather than having a meaningful dialogue. One would only have to look as far as UC Berkeley’s Horowitz debacle or Cal Poly’s censure of Steve Hinkle to realize that. It is troubling that the culture of academic life has eschewed the notion of vibrant discussion. Instead, we stifle what we do not want to hear, and we fail to engage on topics for which we have not studied. If we walk away from our debates, we will never be able to progress, and the culture and cause of intellectualism will be beyond repair...