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...students. A state with schools that are failing will have a vested interest in fixing these schools because educated citizens and workers make the state stronger; there is no reason for the federal government to get involved unless states ask for help.These regulations even usher in the threat of censorship. Many universities have unorthodox views, whether very conservative or very liberal, or even completely off the political spectrum. If the federal government imposes a curriculum, which is essentially what standardized testing does, it will limit the way schools can teach and even what they are allowed to teach because they...
...same thing goes for the Harvard Political Review, which was sent to the presses earlier this week. According to newly inducted Editor-in-Chief Josh Patashnik ’07, the issue is focused on questions of censorship (articles re: Google in China, Danish cartoons). Patashnik will face managing editor Daniel Krauthammer ’07 in a new back-of-the-book point/counterpoint feature. Expect a new website soon...
...weeks after the "censorship" HPR, watch out for a new issue of Diversity and Distinction, which will feature an article on eating disorders and ethnicity and a piece on the recent book “Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers—And How You Can Too?...
Movie history can be divided, without much forcing of the issue, into two eras: before Star Wars and after. The landscape before the first Star Wars film, in 1977, was a very different terrain. The best Hollywood directors, freed from censorship and the nagging sense that they were cranking out movies while their European brethren were hand-crafting films, had begun to forge a distinctive adult American cinema. Few thought in terms of box office megamillions. The idea was to earn enough to entice someone into financing your next picture. (Jean-Luc Godard had done this successfully in France...
...bands known for their cock-rockin’ swagger, couldn’t muster more than a slumber party shovefest when they quarreled.More recently, the political hardcore group Born Against’s indignation over NYC brocore band Sick of It All’s label-enforced censorship led to an hour-long radio debate. In a polarization that haunts hardcore to this day, SOIA came across as bonehead sell-outs, and Born Against as self-righteous aesthetes.But feuds rarely reach such lofty abstractions, centering more often on clothing styles and record sales. Most hilariously, the dude from Fall...