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...French alternative to war in Iraq, disrespecting and offending much of the international community. In engaging in debate with the U.S., France was simply questioning the means to best solve the Iraqi problem. On March 16 French President Jacques Chirac said “we are not anti-American??but if there is a friend or somebody I dearly love, and if you see that they are going down the wrong path…then friendship demands that we tell that friend, that we warn him.” However, many U.S. officials still viewed the French position...
Baseball ranks up right up there with—dare I say it—apple pie as a prototypical “American?? phenomenon, and for good reason. As the most affordable of the major professional sports, baseball-in-the-flesh is accessible to more stratums of society than, say, football. It’s also a melting pot, boasting an incredibly diverse array of players with the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Korea, Japan and, yes, Canada among the countries represented. There’s truly something for everyone at the ballpark...
Both Bullock and Blumberg were First-Team All-Americans last season, but their apparent demotion reflects more on the current state of college squash than on their play. Only one 2001-02 First-Team All-American??Trinity’s Rohan Bhappu—graduated, while three freshmen, including Broadbent and intercollegiate champion Yasser El-Halaby of Princeton, were named to this year’s team...
...jihad in the streets of Cambridge—draping myself in an American flag, waving obnoxious signs boasting that “Blair’s our bitch” and blasting Lee Greenwood’s classic “I’m Proud to be an American?? on my stereo. I am also constantly referencing our victory in the revolutionary war, the collapse of the British empire and our current status as a superpower...
Nkosi’s decision to call this photograph “Just plain African Americans” is interesting, given that the only figures depicted are a lone black woman and a white television personality. Is Judge Judy somehow “African American??? Are the “plain African Americans” the non-existent inhabitants of the deserted chairs? Is the woman with the magazine somehow supposed to represent her entire race? Like the title of the exhibit, much of this piece’s power is in its ambiguity and the questions...