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...related to its mission. Apparently, the Institute’s directors believe that their mission is to engage young people in certain kinds of politics, or more specifically, Democratic Party politics. Indeed, the IOP was dead-set against hosting the Green candidates??€™ debate until I threatened to write a letter to this newspaper, describing the IOP’s longstanding mistreatment of the Harvard College Greens...
...singular monument to the cocktail of pills, smokables, intravenous supplements and various other curiously strong concoctions that always seem to lubricate the gears of musical creativity—the album that best delineates the impact of these substances on artistic ambitions. Of course there are just so many worthy candidates??€”for instance, anything breathed on by Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett before he tripped off the face of the planet. I’ve chosen to narrow my focus to an album that never quite made it, and a man who was psychologically destroyed...
...course, not all political film-making of the past was characterized by such straightforward objectivity. The 1964 feature The Best Man, based on a stage play by Gore Vidal, resonates with today’s negative politics, as it dramatizes several candidates??€™ efforts to smear and outmaneuver their opponents behind the scenes of a political convention. Vidal criticized both ends of the political spectrum, basing her Machiavellian politicos on real-life figures ranging from Adlai Stevenson to Barry Goldwater...
...that is, until the accusations were debunked. After a ridiculous amount of media coverage—as though we could expect anything less from our friends in the establishment—the public was finally granted a much-needed reprieve from the incessant and insipid focus on the candidates??€™ war records, or lack thereof. But, thanks, in part, to a couple of well-to-do Texans, the Swift Boat boys are at it again...
Damn we seniors are feeling popular! Seventeen people asked us to vote for them for Class Marshal this year. But one of these candidates??€”you know who you are—who saw us at that Canaday Bash and never said hi, or pointedly ignored us when sitting at the same table in Adams that Tuesday sophomore year, better not be expecting this vote. This is what democracy looks like, you asshole...