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...maybe it would be better if people were arguing over The National Parks. The film is an overstuffed love letter to America that tries - as the parks' architects also did - to unite people in connection with the heartbreakingly gorgeous land they share. Lyricists write about purple mountains' majesty for a reason: these vistas inspire introspection and humility. Maybe this film could do what town halls and presidential addresses haven't done - encourage us to debate what our country should be, and what makes America beautiful, without getting ugly...
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s visit to campus drew passionate responses this past Friday, as a group of Colombian students presented the president with a letter criticizing his decision to seek a third term in office while a number of local residents protested outside Uribe’s speech at the Institute of Politics...
...Dowling Report.”The report also recommended that the student-faculty committees be given decision-making power. Decisions could be vetoed by the committee chair, who in turn could be overruled by a two-thirds vote.Hammonds and Smith disagreed with this particular suggestion. Smith wrote in a letter to Dowling Committee chair Professor John E. Dowling in May, “I would like to clarify...that the role of committees is to provide recommendations to the deans, who then make decisions with the benefit of those recommendations.”Some students were unsatisfied by degree...
...section of “Bright Star” becomes an exercise in tedium, as the film first shows the happiness of the young couple, then the sadness Brawne feels when Keats must visit the countryside for financial reasons, then the joy she experiences when he writes her a letter, then the sadness she suffers when time passes with no word. There is no cohesive narrative structure to support Brawne’s baffling shifts in extreme emotions, and as such the film is reduced to a series of dramatically disparate moments.Moreover, the plot’s implications become exceedingly...
...criticism has swelled along with attention to Obama's appointments. Foremost among them are members of Congress who believe the advisers circumvent the legislative branch's proper supervision of the executive (unlike Cabinet secretaries, czars are not subject to confirmation votes). Earlier this month, six Republican lawmakers wrote a letter to Obama complaining that 18 White House positions "may be undermining the constitutional oversight responsibilities of Congress." Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, a well-known defender of Senate prerogatives, complained about the positions in a letter earlier this year. A spokesman replied that Obama is simply continuing a presidential practice...