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As Americans, it is always hard for us to confront the remnants of former greatness, skewed and corrupted by a decided lack of originality and misguided attempts to be hip and cool. It’s what is vaguely depressing about Rod Stewart cutting an album of jazz standards; the...
When Olympic athletes were asked if they would take an unknown drug that could take up to 10 years off of their life, but would guarantee an Olympic medal, some 85 percent said yes. Such is the dramatic desperation for success that we would trade years of our life to...
So there you go: Concentrating in film studies is an ideal way of becoming a citizen of the world because you never risk forgetting that there are important barriers to your achievement of that citizenship. There is no easy cosmopolitanism. Film studies allows you to discover precisely what the barriers...
The heroic saga writes itself, with help from Shakespeare's Henry V and the life story of Harry Truman. This small man, this wastrel youth, finds himself leading his nation as it faces one of its greatest challenges. And in the fire of great events, he finds the fire of...
This burst of greatness has been put down to Australia's new head coach Leigh Nugent, and a concerted effort since the Sydney Games to put muscle into the female ranks - "a very, very clear focus," explains rising Melbourne coach Rohan Taylor, "to strengthen the women's program within the...