Word: leftwards
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...which cocaine is derived, reversing decades of U.S. efforts to eradicate the crop in Bolivia. And he also hopes to nationalize the tens of trillions of cubic feet of recently discovered natural gas in Bolivia coveted by U.S. energy companies. A Morales victory may also quicken Latin America's leftward drift - left-leaning candidates are favored to win at least five of the nine presidential elections scheduled for 2006 in Latin America...
...most conspicuous and skillful example of a leftward tilt is the R.S.C.'s anti-imperialist version of Shakespeare's celebration of conquest, Henry V. This was the text that Laurence Olivier used on film to rally his countrymen to nationalistic zeal. But in Director Adrian Noble's post-Falklands vision, the play becomes a chronicle of doomed and bloody consequences of meddling abroad. In its most striking visual image, the names of the dead from the Battle of Agincourt are inscribed on a scrim resembling the Viet Nam memorial wall in Washington. This sobering reminder of the wages...
It’s no secret that the world of academia—Harvard included—has a decidedly leftward lean. Not even liberals deny this. But what they do often deny is that this overbearing bias is a problem that needs to be addressed. The fact that it is not even seen as a serious concern is indicative of just how deep and institutionalized this political imbalance has become. Things need to change. Bias should be kept to a healthy minimum in the classroom, and schools need to make a much more serious effort to recruit faculty that...
...self-declared Democrat from Kansas, Anthony C. Biagioli ’06 masked his leftward leanings for the night and dressed up as a Bush supporter...
...domestic policy agenda is the biggest fraud on the American public since Richard Nixon campaigned on a secret plan to end the Vietnam War. This latest vacuous ploy makes previous Bush policy announcements pale in comparison. While we’ve come to expect our president to disingenuously pander leftward while lurching ever farther right—think outdoorsy photo-ops for the ill-named Healthy Forest Initiative, which opened up 20 million acres of National Forests to logging and made them more susceptible to fires—this time the Republicans aren’t even bothering...