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...system's not "workable." (On Friday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Washington against deploying the shield in Europe. "Deployment of a missile defense system would bring nothing to security," he said at a press conference with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. "It would complicate things, and would make them move backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Will Continue Star Wars | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...create the conditions for the leader, not the other way around. Obama isn't bringing moral values to the black community; he's responding to the community's own innate, quasi-conservative embrace of those values. Thus the question of what Obama has to teach black people is exactly backward. The real question is what black people, through Barack Obama, have to show America and the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama and the Myth of the Black Messiah | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...other houses’ more plebeian Stein Clubs—a blonde ale called “Gold Room Gold” made its debut and house pride bubbled to the surface. The five gallons of “Smada” beer (“Adams” backward), brewed in the house kitchen under the direction of brewmaster Joseph D. Hiatt ’11, ran out within the first 15 minutes. “Nice fuzz, full body. I’d come back for more,” Adams House Master Sean G. Palfrey...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The New Spirit in Adams House | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...have to look and act like everyone else just to enjoy rights that an increasing number of courts are saying are inherently theirs. And for gays in California, who have had full marriage rights for the past six months, giving up on marriage seems a lot like going backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Activists Rethink Their Gay-Marriage Tactics | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...Sigur Ros’s music intensified and transitioned into a rolling rhythm, the entire cast moved in a series of enclosed turns suggestive of the inevitable continuation of time. The energy in the hall remained suspended for a moment after the final scene, as the dancers leaned backwards in simultaneous peace and determination against the auditory backdrop of lightly crashing waves. While “Von” hinted at the endurance of the human spirit, “Echoes,” a creation of Boston Conservatory alumnus Thang Dao, adopted a markedly darker tone. Dancers in plain...

Author: By Monica S. Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Missteps at World Premieres | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

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