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...social/racial conservatives is nothing new; it just becomes strikingly apparent when this issue comes up.The Democratic split on immigration, pundits claim, is identical to the Republican’s. According to a Washington Post article, the immigration issue pits working class Democrats, who fear that loose immigration policies will hurt their livelihood, against “liberal lawmakers,” who support immigrant rights. The problem, according to the Post, is that illegal immigrants lower working class wages. Democrats who go easy on “illegals” pose a direct threat to American low wage workers.The Post...
...preventing critics from reviewing films because their “sensibilities” don’t match up with those of the film-going public? Rice’s first explanation—that studios don’t screen films if they believe the reviews might hurt their opening box office—seems far more likely. But it’s troubling that Rice tries to champion anti-intellectual animosity toward critics by suggesting that they are out-of-touch with average moviegoers. Of course, film critics have their biases. Indeed, certain movie genres, namely horror...
...influential people and Foreign Policy magazine’s rankings of the top 100 public intellectuals, came to Harvard from MIT in 2003. He says he moved here primarily in order to get a broader intellectual perspective, though his office’s spectacular view doesn’t hurt...
...doesn’t hurt when the leader of the community takes the time to sell Harvard to recruited professors...
...former longtime U.S. diplomat in the Middle East and adjunct professor of international studies at USF who worked closely with al-Arian on U.S.-Muslim dialogue, told TIME after al-Arian's acquittal late last year, "I think the disgraceful, overzealous way the U.S. pursued this case has hurt its credibility [in the Arab world]. But Sami lied to me and his colleagues, and all the progress we made feels like it's all gone down the drain." Which is where the Feds and al-Arian have both apparently decided to let the matter...