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...past month, in the academic equivalent of the Cuban Missile Crisis, students and faculty have faced off with administrators against the backdrop of an educational Armageddon. Looming over us was not the threat of a nuclear winter, but that of an academic wasteland, devoid of choice and opportunity. But last week, in an unexpected maneuver reminiscent of Khrushchev’s withdrawal from Cuba, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby backed down...
Over a hundred faculty members and students attended a largely anti-war teach-in yesterday against the backdrop of President Bush’s claim that today will be “a moment of truth for the world...
...telling that while bombed-out German cities serve as the backdrop to many of the films, the Third Reich is seldom their subject. It is disturbing—if not offensive—that while the Nazis and war are occasionally referenced, the persecution of Jews is never addressed...
...book's backdrop?the injustices suffered by Japanese Americans incarcerated in internment camps during the war?is familiar material. But Otsuka, through various devices such as the use of characters without names, manages to make universal the psychological torment of wartime prejudice without wallowing in sentimentality. Starting with the arrest of the father of the clan in a midnight FBI raid, Otsuka spins out the story from the perspective of each family member. First, the characters lose their freedom as they are trucked off to a camp in desolate Utah. Ultimately, they lose their identity, returning to their vandalized home...
...forum was set against the backdrop of the second World Social Forum (WSF), which took place last month in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and from which Chomsky recently returned...