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...presidential candidates have used the assassination as a platform to talk up their experience on foreign policy and national security issues. Even on the Harvard campus, Harvard Right to Life has begun a campaign against the legality of gender-selective abortion in the U.S. in Bhutto’s honor, even though the distasteful practice is virtually non-existent in this country, and advocating for its abolition in South Asia was but a tiny portion of Bhutto’s career and message. It’s wrong to make Benazir Bhutto into a patron saint for every cause...
Politics is a family tradition--Haugland's great-grandfather was a Lieutenant Governor--and one that she intends to honor, with plans to work for a state representative this spring. And while she has no formal media experience, Haugland earned some stripes on her grandfather's farm in Clear Lake, Iowa, where the family gives summer tours of the field where Buddy Holly's plane crashed in February...
...runaway years, when billion-dollar blockbusters like Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King get what is essentially People's Choice awards. Moviegoers who are TV viewers don't want horse races; they want coronations--validation that Hollywood is ready to honor the movies they love...
...Spirit Awards for independent films (which the Writers Guild is not picketing) honor the indie films that critics love. And let Hollywood be Hollywood...
...Simon's progressive politics, The Wire betrays a kind of small-c conservative nostalgia for hard work and honor, for shoe-leather police work, for reporters who pound the pavement, even for criminals who try to follow some kind of code. The Wire offers a bird's-eye critique of society, but it doesn't look down on individuals. Its heroes are flawed, fated people who try even without hope, who teach kids with horrid home lives, who try to kick unshakable addictions, who do the hard labor of investigations even when their bosses punish them...