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Democracy seems especially pallid in a year when political drama has had a bracing revival. Plays like Guant�namo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom'--another British import, about the treatment of detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba--have built compelling drama out of real-life interviews and transcripts, while such anti-Bush works as Sam Shepard's new The God of Hell, a caustic parable about a nefarious government agent terrorizing a Wisconsin farm couple, give off the sparks of real political anger. By comparison, the polite, political-science-class dramatics of Democracy seem as outmoded...
...credibility than the metastasizing oil-for-food scandal, which has grown from a fringe obsession among conservative ideologues to the subject of five separate congressional investigations. All this has trained the hot lights on Annan, a second-term Secretary- General and Nobel Peace laureate who finds himself fighting to defend his office in the face of a small but determined band of congressional foes. After holding a single public hearing, Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican chairing one of the congressional inquiries, wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week that "Kofi Annan should resign, because the most extensive fraud...
Privately, Murphy has assured his coaching staff that he will likely return to defend his third Ivy title...
...question and answer session, Summers was forced to defend his position as an economist, which some saw as favoring economic development at the cost of economic reform. “There’s a reason I wasn’t in a big hurry to be on this panel,” Summers joked...
More than 80 percent of the school’s faculty voted by secret ballot to confirm Goldsmith’s tenure appointment in the spring, and longtime Harvard Law professors have rallied to defend their new colleague as well as to praise his academic credentials...