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Ultimately, the Salahis’ intentions??while disturbing—proved harmless, and it is fortunate that their silly antics exposed security flaws without threatening the president’s safety. In essence, the gatecrashers prevented anyone with more sinister plans from taking advantage of loopholes. Now, the White House can address the issues with no real harm done. That being said, this incident need not lead to an overreaction within the Secret Service. While the president’s safety is of the utmost importance, we hope that he remains accessible to the American people. The Salahis?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Party Crashers | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...that of practical relevance to communities—is problematic as a guiding principle because it arises from a form of cultural nationalism . Thus, the valiant efforts of Asian American Studies to provide a counter-discourse against dominant Eurocentric interpretations of American history are ultimately inconsistent with its intentions??by prioritizing a particular group’s preservation and ethnic identity via primarily nationalistic justifications, Asian America risks becoming a centralized, hegemonic voice itself. This risk comes very much to the forefront when we consider which groups in particular Asian America presumably represents. Different Asian ethnicities are unequally...

Author: By N. KATHY Lin | Title: No to Asian American Studies | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...earth is slowing down at a rate of .00000006 miles per hour each day, disrupting the chemical equilibrium in the human brain, causing very irrational criminal behavior.” Santaros and his porn-star lover Krysta Now, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar (“Cruel Intentions??), work to put the screenplay together, but in the course of their efforts, Santaros begins to reclaim his memory and unearths a governmental plot that has the potential to destroy the earth. People planning to see this movie should not hope for the next “Donnie Darko...

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Southland Tales | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...serious poetry among the general populace, Harvard is home to an unusually large number of aspiring poets, and Harvard graduates stud the canon of star poets.Those involved in the creative writing community at Harvard agree that they live in a uniquely vibrant, creative and stimulating environment. STYLES AND INTENTIONS??There’s certainly a very high concentration of talent [here,]” says Jeff S. Nagy ’07.Nagy, a former poetry editor of The Harvard Advocate, is a curious poet. Belying his bespectacled and bookish appearance is his insistent manner and his forceful stand...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roses are Red, Violets are Blue... | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...Newsweek Magazine in 1992 that he felt “as a gay man, if I didn’t find anything, I would give up a scientific career altogether.” This myopic lust for a genetic explanation of homosexuality—while based on genuinely benevolent intentions??overlooks the most important cultural means of improving homosexuals’ status in society, and could even be disastrous for the very group that the research intends to benefit. As Americans have witnessed in the incessant questioning of Darwinian evolution, society does not embrace science if the subject...

Author: By Andrew D. Fine, | Title: Overlook the Gay Gene | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

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