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...world’s oldest hereditarymonarchy, and Haruko’s life ischoked with thousands of years’ worthof accrued ceremony: the 15 kilogramsof traditional clothing Haruko wears onher wedding day, the seven-day namingprocess for her first son. The monotonyand constriction of it push Haruko intoa nervous breakdown, forcing her toleave the royal palace to convalesce at herchildhood home.At this point, convention tells us, sheshould recover from her mental anguishand find the strength to carve out a placefor herself, even within the suffocatingenvironment of the court. Whether ornot Empress Michiko actually returnedfrom her convalescence with newfoundresolve...
...around himself (with bizarre imagery like “myxomatoid kids”); his wandering mind can’t quite convey his intended points (“Prolix! Prolix! / Nothing a pair of scissors can’t fix!”). The music built around this communicative breakdown is vaudevillian and full of overlong, hyperbolic verses that drop without warning into heaps of hissing chaos, only to begin again in spotty, amnesiac continuity.The truly epic “More News from Nowhere” closes the album with recurring allusions to Homer?...
...been unconscionably reluctant to back up with real action. But Barack Obama, has demonstrated tremendous leadership time and time again by backing up his great speeches with even greater actions. There is no country in the world that has had to endure a more gruesome aftermath of a total breakdown in leadership than Rwanda. In 1994, Rwanda suffered a tragedy unimaginable in both scope and brutality. It was the fastest genocide in recorded history. An estimated 800,000 to one million innocent civilians were killed in a span of one hundred days, and hundreds of thousands fell victim to displacement...
...tells us that the absence of Will & Grace—or Will & Will—from this presidential election is a good sign for gays and lesbians. During the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, the Republican Party used gay and lesbian issues to stir up their base. They used the breakdown of the traditional family as a rallying point around which millions of voters were mobilized. Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a lecturer on History and Literature and Public Policy and a member of Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Task Force, put it best...
...amends the constitution on his own with the endorsement of his handpicked judges. You know he is a man who is arbitrary, a man who has no respect for rule of law, he just wants to cling to power, a man who was the cause of a total breakdown in law and order, and a man who is absolutely economical with the truth. He's a liar. One thing I would like the Americans to realize is that you cannot have democracy without a free judiciary. In the West an independent judiciary came several centuries before full democracy. In England...