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Some of the musical’s serious moments include a satirical take on class warfare with the tune “Better Bed,” where an argument arises between Joe and Blake on who deserves the bottom bunk. Kline commented, “We confront some serious issues in this musical as well, such as the class system, private versus public schools, which was very heavy at the time. And we talk about aging–everybody gets old some time...
This ignores the latest twist on a now familiar argument: that unless we dress up in grotesque or silly frocks and ask people for junk food, the terrorists will have won. "Halloween is the only holiday we have left where people open their doors to strangers," says Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, author of Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History. "It's a holiday for kids, and there is no reason to take it away from them...
...PAVEL WOLBERG/AP Argument: A Palestinian woman tries to enter occupied Jenin...
These points are still secondary to the main argument in favor of an ethnic studies concentration. During a recent lecture, Sollors noted that what is American has become “an incorporation of both indigenousness and arrival, to formulate an all-inclusive story of our various arrivals [to America].” The story of the creation of the American nation is a story of arrivals. Almost all Americans arrived here at some point or another. To ignore the study of the self-definitions and boundaries of ethnicity is to deny the very characteristic that makes us American. What...
...injunction to “slay...the unbelievers” that Douthat cites regarding violence against non-Muslims is not to be found in the Koran. This quotation is a pure fabrication—the writing of an artifical “Koran” to support a flawed argument. Although Douthat did not make this error intentionally, his failure to check his sources on such a fundamental matter results in misinformation and bad journalism. However, reading these verses in these terms would make sense if and only if the rest of the Koran and the sayings of the Prophet...