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...where she got her first lessons in politics, from the best teacher anyone could want. When Nancy D'Alesandro was a child, her father used to collect yellow sheets of paper that were stacked and stapled together at the end of each week. They were called the "favor file." That was the way Baltimore's legendary Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.--later known as "Big Tommy," to distinguish him from his namesake son who also became mayor--kept track of who had been given a job or some other benevolence. The record always came in handy at election time. From...
...Global Attitudes Project poll released last June, favorable opinions of the United States among European citizens ranged from a dismally slim 23 percent among Spaniards, to a lackluster 56 percent in Great Britain. The last few weeks alone have seen German lawyers, buoyed by anti-American sentiment, file suit against recently resigned Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for committing war crimes under international law. But from where do such sentiments arise?One reason frequently bandied about is that, in autocratic states like Saudi Arabia, students are taught to resent the United States during their formative years of schooling. And there...
...Derrida/Ferdinand de Saussure (choose one). Hell, put it into dialogue with itself. The more ridiculous the comparison, the more explication you’ll need to justify it, and the closer you’ll be to your goal: 750 words, an e-mail to your TF with the file attached, and a big bottle of Olde English 800 that you can crunch while listening to “40 Oz to Freedom” on your iPod nano...
...Eliot House during the week of final exams, pulling fire alarms in retaliation. How could anyone think of doing such a thing when people are dying in Iraq, asked the fireman. Really, how could they? The students, with yet another layer of shame heaped upon them, finally began to file back into the House. (Cambridge Fire Department Chief of Operations John J. Gelina, told The Crimson that he had not heard of the tirade and that he was unable to comment further.) While we certainly share the legitimate concern over what would have happened in the event of a real...
...Khanfar: When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home. At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight...