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According to Kelly, Richard “has a good fashion sense. It is a very personal fashion sense,” marked by her fondness for cowboy boots. When Edward P. Bass, the Yale Corporation member and benefactor from Texas, saw Richard’s boots, Kelly says, he insisted that she be outfitted by “the boot maker to the Texas elite...
...you’re going wear cowboy boots, you’re going to have to wear the best,” Bass said to Richard...
Charles Spearin is the tallest member of Broken Social Scene, a Canadian indie-rock band. He’s also one of its founders, playing primarily bass but dabbling in other instruments on each of the band’s four full length albums. His own band, Do Make Say Think, a post-rock band whose long, intricate compositions recall Godspeed You Black Emperor, has also been rapidly gaining fans by touring with Broken Social Scene. On a rainy night before a concert in Providence, Spearin sat down for an interview with The Harvard Crimson, but one which he stipulated...
...case against executing Saddam has little to do with justice. (Though it has some: as Gary J. Bass has argued, Saddam still faces trial for an even worse offense, the genocide of Kurds at Anfal in 1988, which will never be prosecuted adequately if he is put to death now.) It comes down instead to politics. In a perfect world, Iraq's courts would be free of sectarian biases and worthy of public trust. But many Sunnis who loathed Saddam distrust the institutions of the Shi'ite-led government even more. I doubt that most Sunnis will view Saddam...
...issue of religious literacy, it unfortunately did so in a spirit of pragmatism and anti-intellectualism. The Task Force’s underlying rationale for general education can be summed up in three words: real-world citizenship. Perhaps reflecting the pragmatic worldview of the task force co-chair and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, they have taken the focus off of academics and directed it instead towards real-life application and civic duty...