Word: homelands
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...musical limitations. He never manages to transcend them, but the album’s strength is the force of his frustration. His weakest tracks are more disappointing than infuriating. But in the center of the album, Akon stops the self-loathing for a moment to romanticize his homeland of Senegal on “Mama Africa.” The equally hopeful “Don’t Matter” does the same thing. Akon doesn’t so much leave his problems behind as successfully pretend that they don’t exist. Akon, who brings...
...after hordes of Canuck researchers retreated to my frigid homeland, the rest of us will be left mired in a pretty serious dilemma. As Harvard prepares to inaugurate the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the University will have to answer a fundamental question—when researchers stand to make massive contributions to knowledge in areas that are the subject of controversy, to what extent is it incumbent on us to shield them from the prying eyes of the government...
...often with political implications. But unlike their colleagues who work with stem cells, social scientists who investigate things like Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism, and nuclear proliferation (not to mention a treasure trove of combinations thereof), are increasingly finding themselves looking down the barrel of the U.S. government’s homeland security apparatus...
...which runs from Nov. 10-18 at the Loeb Experimental Theatre—and is often called the pleasantest of Shaw’s volume of “Plays Pleasant”—centers on the return of a mother and her three children to their homeland, after having left 18 years earlier because of the mother’s desire to avoid her husband. Their return is prompted by the mother’s desire for her eldest daughter to follow in her footsteps and become the next free radical feminist thinker. However, her plans become...
...major reasons that divided government can also be productive government, Mayhew notes, is that Congress doesn't just pass things in a vacuum. After 9/11, both parties felt a need to take steps to protect the country, leading to passage of the Patriot Act, creation of the Homeland Security Department and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also Presidents tend to overreach more when one party controls both the executive and legislative branches of government. Think of President Clinton's failed campaign to create universal health care in 1993 and President Bush's brief flirtation with radically restructuring Social Security...