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...shards of sharp black comedy. Its seedy characters—linked together through mob ties—mingle aimlessly in squalid strip clubs and vast stretches of barren glacial suburbia. They’re all motivated by a common goal: escaping the tedium that lays thick all over Wichita, Kan. It’s a reverse “Wizard of Oz,” with all of the Dorothys and Totos desperately clawing over each other for a glimpse of the Yellow Brick Road. Though the film is being marketed as a comedy (if one that doesn?...
...withdrawing to preserve executive privilege is reasonable, her decision to withdraw was undeniably the correct one. Much of the anti-Miers vitriol swirling around her nomination was spawned from a conservative fear that her views on critical social issues, such as abortion, were unclear. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., for one, refused to endorse her out of a fear that she would fail to retain a strictly conservative judicial philosophy. Miers’ unclear judicial philosophy is a product of her lack of judicial experience. If Miers had previously served in a lower court, then she would have, no doubt...
Lead by co-concertmasters J.Y. “Ariel” Jeong ’07 and Mathew J. Kan ’07, the HRO began the night with the solemn opening tones of the patriotic Lincoln Portrait. Copland’s music, which incorporates motifs from American folk songs and the spoken words of Abraham Lincoln, was narrated by Dean Gross, a former HRO member...
...launched last month by students at Swarthmore College aiming to raise money to provide logistical support and materials—but not weapons—to the 2,000 African Union peacekeepers in Darfur. Senators Sam Brownback, R-Kan., Jon Corzine, D-N.J., and six members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed on to the fund’s effort...
...Brownback, R-Kan., addressed an audience of hundreds at the HLS Society for Law, Life, and Religion spring symposium, which this year is focusing on the ethics of cloning and stem cell research...