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Hillary Clinton’s Medicare/Medicaid debacle taught the Right that stigmatizing pays political dividends. Try looking for any mention of single-payer health insurance in Kerry’s platform—it’s like hunting for WMD in Baghdad. Gore didn’t dare touch it in 2000. President Clinton himself dropped the subject after 1994, when his wife’s plan went down in flames. Ever since, the Right has cowed Democrats on the issue by labeling any single-payer proposal as “Hillarycare” or “socialized...
Director Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ represents the teachings of Jesus through a gore-drenched recreation of the final 12 hours before his death. Here, the son of God is a wholly human figure, and Gibson constantly reminds his audience of this with an unceasing depiction of shredded flesh and spattered blood. The effect is alternately piercing and numbing. Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with potent visual poignancy, finding narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters. There are only glimpses of Christ’s words in the movie...
...never seen anyone in politics,” Summer A. Montacute ’06 said. “He was incredibly persuasive in global issues, and presented interesting perspectives. Gore made me question my point of view. He is a little more to the left than...
Lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy David Cash invited Gore to speak to students about his concerns and experiences. Gore wrote Earth in the Balance, a book about the environment, and has advocated for the environmental protections throughout his political career...
...else better to answer questions about public policy and the environment than Gore?” Cash said...