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...nativism. The Arab world is moving toward democracy, and yet Arab men seem to have eclipsed black men as Public Enemy No. 1. Even the racial aspects of the Hurricane Katrina disaster are quite subtle. President Bush's performance was not so much racist as it was amazingly lame. Which isn?t to say race wasn?t a factor - it?s easy to be tone-deaf toward people who don?t vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not So Black and White | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

It’s true: the College does plan structured events that are vaguely social in nature. But these—ice cream socials, Pre-Frosh Weekend, Freshmen Week—tend to be lame and uncomfortable...

Author: By Sarah C. Mcketta, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pub Problem | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...taking the climactic and unexpectedly unique plot twist and unravelling it over the last quarter of the film, letting out whatever steam might have been collected along the way. Two other misdemeanors are a) continuing the trend of crediting Ben Kingsley as “Sir” for lame action movies and b)playing a rap song over the credits that summarizes the plot, “Mighty Ducks” style...

Author: By Hayes H. Davenport, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lucky Number Slevin | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...there is a vast difference between the lame NSA thriller and the religion-questioning smash...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bestseller: The Da Vinci Code | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...Europe; and the country's youth, who will live less well than their parents, or so 60% of French people believe. It's an explosive situation. In the best scenario, it will lead to a rupture of a bankrupt social model. At worst we'll end up with a lame "appeasement" like the one that led France to humiliating defeat in 1940. Failing to rein in public spending for fear of displeasing those who use and abuse it would amount to precisely that today. In Strange Defeat, a superb essay written in the aftershock of France's capitulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Strange Kind of Revolution | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

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