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Cultural Rhythms, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, is an all-day event that includes an afternoon luncheon. Jean will attend the luncheon and the following 3 p.m. show. Fifteen groups will perform in the afternoon event including the Kuumba Singers, the Harvard Breakers, the Asian American Dance Troupe, and the Harvard Indian Intertribal Dance Troupe. There will also be an evening show, which will not feature the artist of the year...
...jumped an ocean and half a century to bring forward this episode only because it seems so strikingly relevant. In a curious trick of history, the American Tea Party—those who protest Obama’s tax policies by evoking 1773’s colonial steeping of three shiploads of British loose leaf in Boston Harbor—have much in common with their ex-antagonist country’s Angry Young Men. They’re deeply dissatisfied with the status quo. They think (justifiably) that nobody takes them seriously. They lack any theoretically rigorous suggestions...
...corporate giants, irrational taxes, as well as the "puppet" George Bush. "I choose not to pretend that business as usual won't continue," he wrote. "I have just had enough. I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt." And then Stack apparently got in a Piper Cherokee PA-28 at about 9:40 a.m. at an airport in suburban Austin, Texas, and flew the plane into a commercial building housing an IRS office, killing himself, seriously injuring two people on the ground...
...from neighbors on Dapplegrey Lane, a quiet street about six miles north of the office park. A home there was completely engulfed in flames, according to neighbors. The home belonged to Joseph Andrew Stack III, a software engineer. "I heard a humongous boom," neighbor Dane Vick told the Austin American-Statesman, adding that he saw glass being blown out of the home as he called 911. Neighbors managed to pull Stack's wife Sheryl and his 12-year-old stepdaughter from the home after Stack allegedly set it on fire. Neighbors told local news that Stack's wife...
What really defines our political era, as Ronald Brownstein notes in his book The Second Civil War, is not the polarization of Americans but the polarization of American government. In the country at large, the disputes are real but manageable. But in Washington, crossing party lines to resolve them has become excruciatingly rare...