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...best to stand up for and fund what is right because he knows what is best for Americans: establishing the difference between right and wrong. The people have spoken for morality, a safeguard that keeps our country the model of a shining city on a hill. Cherie Johnson Chicago...
When Democrats convened in 1968 to nominate Hubert Humphrey in Chicago, violence erupted in the surrounding streets as law enforcement clashed with students gathered to protest Lyndon Johnson’s war. Inside the hall, one Senator denounced the “Gestapo tactics” of Mayor Daley’s police, while the nation watched aghast as their televisions carried images of students being beaten outside. Incredibly, no one was killed, but the violence became one of many bitter moments etched in the nation’s memory of the turbulent...
...asked Tom Hayden, who earned worldwide fame as one of the “Chicago Seven” put on trial for organizing the 1968 demonstrations, whether he thought the violence of conventions past might rear its ugly head in 2004. Hayden, whose notoriety was rekindled on this campus when Harvard’s own Miami Four were arrested after traveling with him to observe globalization protests in December, says that while it’s a different time, he’s worried about a parallel emerging. If authorities look at quelling protest as a question of homeland security...
...recent years feels like it's derived from television and the movies. Sometimes that can be done creatively, as with Terry Johnson's Hitchcock Blonde. Sometimes, though, the need to shoehorn TV and film celebrities into a production, as with Matthew Perry and Minnie Driver in Sexual Perversity in Chicago, is simply awful. The best screen-to-stage adaptations - like Disney's The Lion King, which uses puppetry to inspired effect - are reinvented and freed by the live medium...
...prosperity. She believes the house is still rightfully hers and battles back - with deadly consequences. Though Kingsley and Shohreh Aghdashloo, who plays his wife, Nadi, have both won acclaim and Oscar nods for their performances, some critics panned the film's tragic Shakespearean ending. ("Smacks of overreach," complained the Chicago Tribune.) But Kingsley puts the film in league with ancient dramatic traditions that used less plausible, more hyperbolic plotlines to pound home a point. "The Greeks embraced tragic drama," he says. "We are a society dedicated to the outlawing of tragedy, and we outlaw it at our peril...