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...kind of whorish.” 2) Christmas Party (Season 3, Episode 10) The forces of good and evil (Pam and Karen) unite in opposition against an even greater evil (Angela). Michael’s political incorrectness achieves a new level of hilarity when he tags his Asian date with a marker in order to tell her apart from her equally Asian friend. Best Line: Michael, “C’mon, we’re going to Asian Hooters.” 3) The Fiesta (Season 3, Episode 13) Oscar is welcomed back to work after a three...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nayeli E. Rodriguez | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...simply a reductio an absurdum.Following up its anthropomorphized subject with a revivified one, the collection’s trajectory careens even further towards the absurd with “Dreaming of the Dead,” in which the apparition of the late Edward Said appears as a lunch date. Over Chinese food, he describes the work he’s ostensibly undertaken since his passing: composing a symphony.Perhaps we can read in Said’s apparition a gloss to the collection’s title: in Said’s real posthumously published work...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nobel Winner’s ‘Beethoven’ an Uneven Performance | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...movie has received a fair amount of attention since the parents of the actor who plays young Hassan requested that the scene in which the boy is raped be removed from the movie altogether. Later, amidst growing concerns about the safety of the child actors in Afghanistan, the release date of the film was delayed six weeks in order to allow the actors to be relocated. Yet for all the controversy surrounding the scene, in its final form, it is brief and relatively tame. Still, the very fact that the movie’s content—its frank treatment...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Kite Runner | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...case concerns a Florida statute that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2006, which requires election officials to match information provided on voter registration applications - such as name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, and driver's license number - against data in official records before an individual can be registered to vote. The problem is that even a simple error such as a typo can keep a legitimate voter off the registration rolls. Compounding that issue is the state's large number of citizens with Haitian or Hispanic names that are either hyphenated or use multiple surnames. Opponents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Votes Count in Florida | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...pretty much a spent force by 2000. Under this theory, Republicans should have lost that election but survived thanks to Bush's qualities, the butterfly ballot and five Supreme Court Justices. Then 9/11 happened, which enabled Bush to win reelection, despite the fact that the G.O.P.'s sell-by date had long since passed. The past seven years, in this view, were an anomaly that postponed the reckoning and made the G.O.P. crash even more severe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The GOP Race: None of the Above | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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