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...fifth and final season of HBO's The Wire--TV's greatest current work of social criticism, of drama, of, well, TV--is about the failures of the media. In that spirit, let me begin with an apology. The odds are good that you have not yet watched the first four seasons of The Wire, which returns on Jan. 6, and that means that I as TV critic have failed you. Mea culpa...
...silence of certain demographic groups is troubling. A select few Asian ethnicities are fortunate enough to comprise a substantial proportion of the campus population—these ethnicities can more easily draw upon sheer numerical leverage in order to make their presence and voices heard. Asians collectively comprise a fifth of campus. But what of other, less represented groups? Mexican Americans make up 3.7 percent of the undergraduate population, while comprising 7.4 percent of the United States. Native Americans comprise an even smaller proportion of the student body. For purely numerical reasons, these groups have a much harder time mobilizing...
...everyone can be the Comeback Kid. For a campaign that pulls up lame, but isn't ready to be euthanized, viability is the play. For some, this means a creative interpretation of the results, such as Senator Joe Lieberman declaring after the 2004 New Hampshire primary that his fifth place finish was, in actuality, "a three-way tie for third place." But there's danger in the viability strategy, danger exemplified by Howard Dean. After finishing a disappointing third in '04, Dean declared: "We're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico...
February, in fact, marks the fifth anniversary of the FARC's capture of three U.S. defense contractors - and the sixth for the rebels' best-known captive, liberal Colombian Senator and presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, whose dual Colombia-French citizenship has made her a cause celebre in Europe. Chavez said he still believes the FARC will release Gonzalez and Rojas, who was Betancourt's running mate. But if they don't, 2008 will begin as yet one more year of shame for Colombia...
...Harvard. Wrestling as the eighth seed at 141 lb., Jantzen blazed through the first two rounds by notching two major decisions before facing top seed Alex Tsirtsis of Iowa, eventually defeating him in an 8-3 win. On the second day, Jantzen’s run was halted by fifth seed Dan DeClore of Iowa in a close match in which the freshman fell short by a point. Jantzen then lost his next match by fall and forfeited the fifth place match by medical default, finishing sixth as a result. Junior co-captain Louis Caputo (184 lb.), seeded fourth...