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...True Meaning of Iron Man Richard Corliss totally missed the boat in his analysis of the movie Iron Man [May 19]. The implicit message of the film, with its stereotypical portrayals of Middle Eastern men and trivialization of the role of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, is not, as Corliss states, that "we've dwelled too long in the crypts of antiscientific dystopia." It is rather that the possession of state-of-the-art high-tech weaponry is the key to the triumph of good over evil, that might makes right and that combat is just a high-tech...
Richard Corliss totally missed the boat in his analysis of the movie Iron Man [May 19]. The implicit message of the film, with its stereotypical portrayals of Middle Eastern men and trivialization of the role of our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, is not, as Corliss states, that "we've dwelled too long in the crypts of antiscientific dystopia." It is rather that the possession of state-of-the-art high-tech weaponry is the key to the triumph of good over evil, that might makes right, and that combat is just a high-tech video game. The real villains...
...Radcliffe lightweight crew made a strong showing at the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges’ Sprints placing 2nd in the third varsity four, third in the second varsity eight and fourth in the varsity eight on Sunday on the Cooper River in New Jersey...
...Wisconsin dominated the races, sweeping each, taking the Eastern title upsetting the favorite, top-ranked Princeton...
...varsity boat is now looking towards IRAs,” Kharrazi said. “We have now less than three weeks and we expect more competition to come. There’s Stanford, Bucknell, and there will be others as well who didn’t race at Eastern sprints. We’ve been racing top quality competition, but there’s more where that came from. Going into IRAs we have not very much time to prepare but a very big competition ahead of us. We’re definitely going to be looking to find...