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When the students of the 1960s staged sit-ins to protest the Vietnam War, they employed one of the strongest weapons that powerless groups have against authority, to monumentally important effect. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) has misappropriated their legacy. PSLM’s campaign against the harsh realities of the capitalist economy is certainly noble. But the living wage issue lacks both the gravity and urgency necessary to justify the sit-in that is now taking place. PSLM has done a disservice to its cause and to today’s generation of students by using our weapon...
...their lives prior to and after the disaster that radically reshapes their fates. Inarritu, 37, who has made hundreds of TV commercials in Mexico City, consciously intends his movie to be a portrait of his "dangerous, beautiful" hometown. The film is muy espanol, a portrait that blends harsh realism with a curious tenderness. It is also muy Bunuel, but without his conscious surrealism and with a fierce, cinematic energy that is uniquely Inarritu...
...parking lot outside my health club is, as always, dog eat dog, and by the time I find a spot, I'm sure I've lost out on prime classroom positioning. I may end up next to the Grunter, which would, I have to say, harsh my mellow. But in the spirit of the yogic tradition I choose not to view my exasperated state as a negative thing. Instead, I congratulate myself for my good judgment in getting to this yoga class on a Sunday morning at the godless hour...
...During the instrumental stretches, the majority of the music was that satisfying combination of raspy guitars and basses, pounding drums and crashing cymbals that one often craves during the stress of midterms and finals, although these promising beginnings are often compromised by the addition of misadvised guitar riffs, or harsh, discordant vocals. Not to be defined solely as a “screamo” rock band, Enemymine also offers several songs with distinctly different sounds, experimenting with both electronica and jazz genres. Songs like “Passive Equalizer,” “Setting the Traps?...
Ironically, Palestinians and their supporters seem to see precisely the opposite bias in the media. They claim that the terms in which the news is presented are uneven, degrading to Arabs, not harsh enough for Israel's current hawkish leadership and representative of an implicit bias against Islam in the desire to paint the conflict as a religious war. They are certainly entitled to their interpretations. Yet to discern the world media's consistent and deliberate slander against Israel, one need not interpret terminology either way: It is evident simply in what the press chooses to report and to omit...