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...Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic text “The Scarlet Letter.” Running this past weekend at the Agassiz Theatre, the play explores the modern stigma of being a mother of illegitimate children.Strict Puritan mores are replaced with the doctrine of personal responsibility and the disdain for welfare mothers. Hester Prynne is transformed into Hester La Negrita (Jenné B. Ayers ’10), an illiterate homeless mother of five who lives on the fringes of society, under a bridge. Instead of being forced to wear a scarlet...
...little dose of populism might help light a fire under a political class that engenders more disdain than respect among the French. But experience has shown that people anywhere can be just as boneheaded as their politicians, and that pandering to them doesn't necessarily improve matters. One year ago the death of two teenagers in a poor suburb of Paris set off 12 days of riots in destitute and disenchanted banlieues throughout France. As clashes with police multiply in the run-up to that anniversary, France is nervously eyeing the high unemployment and sense of exclusion that persist among...
...reformist candidates that hard-liners had rigged it. TIME's interview with Ahmadinejad, in which he revealed his supposedly peaceful intentions, sounded hauntingly like the polite conferences European and American diplomats had with Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. While Ahmadinejad is a bit more forthright than Hitler about his disdain for Jews, declaring that Israel should be "wiped away" and the Holocaust is a "myth," Neville Chamberlain would have probably found him trustworthy. Fred S. Carr Jr. Virginia Beach, Virginia...
...reformist candidates that hard-liners had rigged it. Time's interview with Ahmadinejad, in which he revealed his supposedly peaceful intentions, sounded hauntingly like the polite conferences European and American diplomats had with Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. While Ahmadinejad is a bit more forthright than Hitler about his disdain for Jews, declaring that Israel should be "wiped away" and the Holocaust is a "myth," Neville Chamberlain would have probably found him trustworthy. Fred S. Carr Jr. Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. The West may depict Ahmadinejad as dangerous and anti-Semitic, but his interview showed rather a different side...
...reformist candidates that hard-liners had rigged it. TIME'S interview with Ahmadinejad, in which he revealed his supposedly peaceful intentions, sounded hauntingly like the polite conferences European and American diplomats had with Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. While Ahmadinejad is a bit more forthright than Hitler about his disdain for Jews, declaring that Israel should be "wiped away" and the Holocaust is a "myth," Neville Chamberlain would have probably found him trustworthy...