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...then, the U.S. has hired thousands (the precise number is classified) to help prevent another terrorist attack. None has had to fire a weapon in the line of duty post-9/11 until Wednesday, when a federal air marshal shot and killed Rigoberto Alpizar, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen who authorities say claimed he had a bomb, on a plane in a Miami airport...
...Three Sisters. Through Jan. 1. This timeless Chekhov play, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Krystian Lupa, explores the significance of everday tragedies. Loeb Drama Center. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $37-$74 general admission with group, student, and senior citizen discounts available. (AMF)ExhibitsThird Annual “Faces of Cambridge” Benefit Photo Gallery. Saturday Dec. 3-Monday Dec. 5. 1 p.m.-7 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Local nonprofit group Cambridge Student Partnerships is displaying student and professional photography at the Zero Arrow Street space. During Saturday's opening...
...critical of the government's blindness and the insensitivity of French society Re your reporting on violent protests in France [Nov. 14]: The rioters, who are mostly Arab or black, may also be French, although they say they don't feel as if they are treated like "real" French citizens. But what is a French citizen? France is in the middle of a deep national identity crisis. The population doesn't know what it wants, and the politicians don't know what to offer voters. The cause of the riots goes beyond economic and social problems. France is a radically...
...willing to ignore their innate biases against him and vote for his celebrity power. Though Affleck has his work cut out for him, he does possess a rudimentary political philosophy that could be very appealing to some voters. This philosophy centers around Affleck’s belief in citizen legislators as opposed to career politicians. In a 2001 interview with GQ Magazine, Affleck said, “My fantasy is that someday…I can run for Congress on the grounds that everyday people—be they singers or poets or bankers or lawyers or teachers?...
...times, and one reason is Conservative leader Harper. Opponents have been able to paint him as a right-wing yahoo who will undo many of social programs so cherished by the left-leaning Canadian establishment. The Liberals' "greatest ally is Mr. Harper," author Andrew Cohen writes in the Ottawa Citizen. Expect the Liberals to try to demonize Harper again this campaign and then expect a tit-for-tat Tory response to degenerate into the sort of political food fight that will only turn off more voters...