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Admittedly, America's comics have had it easy for the past 16 years. George W. Bush's malapropisms and Bill Clinton's hoarse Bubba twang made them broad targets for satire. Obama's biracial heritage and personal gravitas make him a far more difficult President to imitate - and that's before taking his unique preacher-professor cadences into account. "It's somewhere between Ted Koppel and an alien," impressionist Frank Caliendo said of Obama's voice during an appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, admitting he's struggled with his Obama impression (and not just because he happens...
...into or transited through the United States annually as sex, domestic, garment, and agricultural slaves. McCarthy, lecturer of Literature and Arts A-86: “American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac” and a Quincy House senior tutor, described the book as informative, descriptive, and broad. “One of the things that the editors have done here is that they put a variety of types of slavery,” he said. “The book covers from the stories of illegal child labor industry in Asia to those of victims of Eastern...
...union between two individuals of the opposite sex, McCarthy talked about the importance of extending Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) activism to issues unrelated to same-sex marriage, which he said LGBT individuals have placed on a pedestal. “We need to be more strategic and broad-minded about the issues that we put out in public,” McCarthy said. “I don’t think we will win the war if we make marriage the only issue.” McCarthy stressed that the LGBT community should show greater concern for adoption...
...have provided informed consent—we believe that it is time for policymakers and concerned citizens to begin a careful and informed dialogue regarding the new role of privacy rights in the 21st century. Given the recent and explosive growth of social-networking websites and the increasingly broad abilities of search and service providers to monitor and interfere with Internet usage, the issue has grown even more pressing. In particular, state and federal legislators must craft a flexible legal framework for dealing with data security, especially as the tools available to insurance companies and other interested observers become increasingly...
...Even if a student doesn’t become close friends with his or her co-workers, he or she would still benefit from the exposure to the daily lives of a broad cross-section of a foreign society. Demographics in a university or college tend not to reflect the demographics of a society at large. This is more significant in poorer countries where the university population tends to include more and more of the upper classes. However, all universities are unnaturally homogenous with respect to age. In the workplace, your boss, your receptionist, and your colleagues would...