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...with the bloc, the U.S., particularly under the presidency of George W. Bush, kept ASEAN at arm's length. One reason was Burma's accession to ASEAN in 1997, which put the U.S. in a tough spot. Washington had been tightening sanctions on the Burmese junta because of its dismal human-rights record. By participating in ASEAN confabs, Bush's State Department worried that it would send an overly conciliatory message to the pariah regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama in Southeast Asia: Mending Fences in a Key Region | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

Many of the tracks are more blues than they are country. “All Gone, All Gone,” is about as dismal as the title would suggest. It features a duet between Johnson and Texas songsmith Sarah Jaffe over a plodding guitar line that sounds as if it’s plucked from an early Robert Johnson recording. Featuring a singing saw—an instrument whose existence is easy to forget, but whose presence is impossible to ignore—the song feels like a slow drive down a pitch-black southern road in the heart...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Molina & Johnson | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...scenery is mostly just barroom décor completed by a totally inexplicable jigsaw pattern painted on the floor. The lighting has a few select moments where it explicates the atmosphere of a scene, but otherwise it does little to aid the drama at hand. The sound is a dismal effort, relying largely on tacky, cartoonish underscoring that reduces the tone of any given scene to garish musical stereotypes...

Author: By Matthew C. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Taming' is Less Than 'Shrew'd | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...think it’s fair to say I’m more liberal than most of my colleagues,” says Marglin, whose most recent book was titled: “The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community.” A tenured professor at Harvard since 1968, he says he is aware of the uniqueness of his outlook within the Littauer building, home of the Economics Department. “I don’t think there is anybody who shares my views,” he says...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Tale of Two Ec Classes | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Most of Harvard’s dismal offensive performance in the first half had to do with its inability to get drives going...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Lafayette Finds Motivation in Teammate | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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