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...fought a war to depose Viacom's Sumner Redstone instead of Saddam Hussein. And in a way, the ETS is the nerve center of a war: the War on Indecency. It is a war that had a shot seen round the world--Janet Jackson at the 2004 Super Bowl--but had been simmering much longer. It is a war with strange allies and enemies: it pits free-market conservatives against family-values conservatives, free-speech liberals against Big Government liberals, and a normally pro-business Congress and White House against megacorporations. (Among them is TIME's parent company, Time Warner...
...politics, though: “the Plough and Stars” was the standard of the Irish Marxists and secessionists not too long ago. Soft lantern lighting creates a cheerful, cozy ambience around the all-wood bar. The paneled walls are lovingly decorated with pictures of musicians, Guinness Bowl posters dating back to the sixties, and ads for Sean O’Casey plays. The Plough will be packed on St. Paddy’s Day, with plenty of frothy pints of Guinness and smooth shots of Jameson’s to help keep the snakes away. Irish roast salmon...
...weekly course offered in Mather House lets students forget their midterm stress and think more about lathes—pictured on the left. For just $50, participants spend a semester turning a simple lump of wet wood into a bowl, a pen, or a vase. According to devotees, the activity is quite a stress reliever...
...Donald Tsang? Unlike Tung, the Shanghai-born heir to a Hong Kong shipping empire, Tsang does not come from a privileged background. The eldest son of a policeman, Tsang joined the civil service?Hong Kong's iron rice bowl?soon after high school. His diligence and loyalty pleased his British masters, who sent him to Harvard to get a master's in public administration and granted him a knighthood. Tsang acted as a crucial bridge during Hong Kong's handover to China in 1997, and fought off currency speculators during the Asian financial crisis, postcolonial Hong Kong's first...
...faces a tough re-election battle in 2006, by boosting G.O.P. turnout and diverting Democratic resources. For a party trying to reach out to minorities, it doesn't hurt that Swann is an African American. The timing seems right: with both of the state's NFL teams legitimate Super Bowl contenders, football mania is high. Even Eagles fans might give the cross-state hero a break. At least he never played for the Dallas Cowboys. --By Sean Scully