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...racial box and then explains to us why he belongs there, refusing to accept that Obama can authentically view himself as an individual who happily lives his life as a black man embracing the American Dream. Steele's simplistic labels ("bargainers" and "challengers") disregard the subtleties we employ to navigate our way through the racial land mines of mainstream America. Perhaps he is the one who needs labels and identity cards to know who he is. Preston Foster, Lawrenceville...
...King and I” elicited shock from most Thai who were offended by the portrayal of their much-respected king. The list goes on.Ultimately, such is the power and the danger of artistic license. Inaccuracy, deviation from fact—these are useful. However, the right to employ such tools necessitates a prior understanding of the target audience. When such understanding is lacking, one ought not be surprised at backlash, or in artistic counterpoints that take place (deconstructions like “The Mikado Project,” for example, or “M. Butterfly...
Students who spend hours looking at profiles on Facebook.com—the popular social networking site founded at Harvard—can now employ their stalker talents to follow the 2008 presidential election. Facebook and ABC News have recently added a new feature to the Facebook application “U.S. Politics,” in which 13 ABC reporters will regularly update their Facebook profiles with news and videos about the presidential candidates they tail. Facebook and ABC News also announced on Monday that they would co-sponsor two presidential debates in New Hampshire on January 5, only...
...cutting off this community support, terrorist groups would lose their potency.With this general understanding of global terrorism established, Richardson attempts to develop a counter-terrorism policy based on the successful actions of governments such as Britain and Peru. While her advice—to set measurable and specific goals, employ law enforcement instead of the military, and maximize international cooperation—is persuasive, it is hardly revolutionary.As Richardson moves from the historical to the contemporary, she unfortunately begins to adopt the frustrated rhetoric that has characterized so much political “debate” in recent years. Rather...
...thousand dollars until they could find a grocer to occupy it. This sort of “surgical intervention” as James W. Gray, associate vice president of HRES, termed it could not simply be left up to other landlords. Although HRES has declared that it would not employ these methods in the future, rather than forswear the tactics it employed to install the Market in the Square, they should consider that they may be required again. As the Square becomes ever-more corporatized, such “surgical” methods may again become necessary to attract businesses...