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...Palin speaking for, if not for this plutocratic top 1%? Obama is not a "socialist" just because he believes that the middle class has a right to exist and prosper. In my country, such a political understanding is hardly radical. It's just a reflection of what just and fair societies in this modern world ought to defend. Rob Evans, Willowdale, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...impressed by how people have come together to set aside personal biases during an emotional and difficult time for both camps,” Tompkins said. “The Elections Committee and the candidates devoted so much time to ensure the process was as fair as it could...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PBHA Concludes Strained Elections | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Garcia echoed that sentiment. “I think the elections committee was trying to work as quickly as possible,” he said yesterday. “In the amount of time given, the elections committee was as fair as it could...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PBHA Concludes Strained Elections | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...influential works of our time. But to his credit, Tucker avoids preaching to the choir or trying to win over skeptics. His mission is not to defend the worthiness of Scarface but to establish the boundaries of this drug opus' lasting and profound influence. As a historian, Tucker is fair, acknowledging the film's many faults and the gradual emergence of a vast, underground fan base. And he spends a good many chapters detailing the ways in which the movie reached beyond the theater, inspiring everyone from TV producers to music executives to criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scarface Nation | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

Scarface Nation details the 70-year history of the Scarface story, reconstructs the juicy details of the 1983 Brian De Palma / Oliver Stone / Al Pacino production, and then traces the cultural fallout - questioning how this "antidrug movie [became,] in its pop-cultural afterlife, a pro-thug movie." In being fair to both those who hail the crime thriller as a survivalist masterpiece and those who consider it a blunder of grotesque gratuitousness, Tucker bolsters his argument that whatever your opinion on the film, Scarface cannot be dismissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scarface Nation | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

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