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...prestigious institution.” The New York Times, no doubt comprised of many graduates from both amateur periodicals, similarly gushed: They “could imagine no better way to give hope to opponents of Iran’s repressive state” than to honor the country??s leader with a forum at an Ivy League university—albeit a second-rate...
...Wintner said. “That’s kind of why I wasn’t ready to stop cold turkey and give it up when I got to college.”And Wintner, used to the highest level of competition in his country??s trademark sport, found similar competition and excellence in Newell Boathouse with the Harvard heavyweights. The Crimson heavyweights annually welcome in some of the world’s best junior rowers, making Wintner’s trek up the varsity ladder as a walk-on all the more difficult.But Wintner found immediate...
...might amaze many that the mere prospect of Hillary Clinton moving back in to the White House can inspire such a degree of mercenary desertion in our country??s chaste crusaders. Granted, she has long served as the anathema of the American right, but in substance she’s just as pro-choice, just as tough on guns, and perhaps less Orwellian a presence than Giuliani. Both of these frontrunners have shrunk away from adopting any novel idea in favor of the senseless and discouraging groupthink we euphemize as “electability...
...ally in the war on terror. In particular, they are worried about the United States military’s mission in Iraq, in which neighboring Turkey has been a critical ally. It seems there is some legitimacy to these claims, as Turkish General Yasar Buyukanit has warned that his country??s “military relations with the United States can never be the same,” and the Turkish ambassador to the U.S. has been ordered to return from Washington...
...still plays at clubs, and mobsters with ponytails wear tight leather jackets. But such 80s cultural stereotypes seem anachronistic, mostly because they so poorly mask the fact that the questions at the film’s core are distinctly those of our time—a time when our country??s de facto cultural voice is some mongrel mishmash of Fox News and CNN. If only writer-director James Gray were more sensitive to these issues, then his film might seem less a propaganda co-written by the NYPD’s PR branch and the Department...