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...bigger picture, of course, such resolutions are mostly harmless international name-calling - Beijing was never going to mimic the histrionics of Havana, which held mass official demonstrations Wednesday against criticism by the U.N. commission - but the vote may be a bellwether of international sentiment on China. Washington's failure to rouse a majority for castigating China suggests that the international community is increasingly unwilling to manage its relationship with Beijing through the prism of U.S. concerns, and that gives China plenty of room to maneuver. Even Washington's closest international ally, Israel, has rebuffed U.S. efforts to stop it from...
...ignorant pieces on a regular basis. Any article that portrays Asian-Americans as slanty-eyed, socially inept caricatures would immediately receive a barrage of protests. Despite its derogatory stereotypes, "The Misanthropic Mister Chu" has run this entire semester without much controversy. The student body has mistakenly dismissed it as "harmless," because it appears as a comic strip...
...unbelievable ending, The Importance of Being Earnest remains one of the most original and razor sharp plays ever written. Located firmly in the Victorian era, the story revolves around the caddish Algernon Moncrieff (Kent French) and his friend John Worthing (G. Zachariah White). As both men independently undertake a harmless deception, their "bunburying" turns into a major misunderstanding and leads to a first-rate satire of the English class structure. However, as valiantly as the performers try to do Wilde's words justice, the overall acting can often best be described as benign. Not only do several of the actors...
...said other misconceptions about his life are more harmless, citing the widespread belief that he wrote or sang the song "Cat's in the Cradle." The song was actually written by Harry Chapin...
...unconvincingly prances through it, and the two click with all the passion of someone forced to pet a snake. Still, you have to like a story that makes a turkey baster into a token of endearment, and if the lesson is that a lesbian love comedy can be as harmless as a straight one, there are worse ways to end a movie. Or start a decade...