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...American society. I beg to differ. As the reaction to our parody amply demonstrates, any assertion that women in the Islamic world do enjoy fewer rights than their Western counterparts is met with instantaneous, shrill outrage. There is no debate, no consideration of reality.Instead of taking out their ill-reasoned rage on The Salient, campus Muslims would be wise to focus their attentions on those places from whence their faith came, those places where what is called “moderate Islam” is today besieged.Travis R. Kavulla ’06, a Crimson editorial editor and editor...
...found no "cognizable" right to die in the Constitution, but ruled the current state of affairs unfair under the Equal Protection clause. If someone on life support can have a doctor kill him or her (by pulling a plug), the court reasoned, why deny the service to a terminally ill patient not attached to a machine? The high court will review the two cases together...
...be—Beethoven would die unmarried, and he knew it. So when his brother Casper became terminally ill, Beethoven pursued sole guardianship of Casper’s son Karl, much to the chagrin of the mother, Johanna. The composer drifted toward insanity, accusing Johanna of prostituting herself and convincing himself that Karl was in fact his own son. Johanna eventually hauled Beethoven into court, where witnesses testified about his incompetence as a guardian, and the court exposed his lack of nobility despite the Dutch predicate “van.” The composer was publicly humiliated...
...realistic and thus more disgusting version of Comic Book Guy; the hapless future citizen in “Tales of Tomorrow;” Chalky White, the good-hearted Midwestern father willfully blinded to his teenaged daughter’s unfocused rage; and Quimby the Mouse, the obscene and ill-tempered doppleganger of the 1920s Mickey Mouse...
...creating a short film out of a song by a band whose music is hardly visual. The video concerns a bald, portly, middle-aged man, living a soulless corporate life in a particularly depressing Bed, Bath, Linens, Things and Beyond. Following are shots of mattresses and men with ill-fitting dress shirts; general misery ensues, backed by lead singer Britt Daniel’s restrained 4/4 emotions. Later, said fat protagonist comes home, relaxes, eats, puts on women’s clothing… what? Yes, it seems that, as Daniel croons it, “no one knows...