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...meshing together his life-long interests in politics and comedy into an inseparable pair, Franken has forged a unique brand of satire that in many ways has redefined political humor...
...could vote, Radcliffe and Harvard students formed an organization called “Citizens for Hynes” and worked tirelessly to elect a relative unknown candidate, John B. Hynes, who won and after whom the present-day Hynes Convention Center is named. That exhilarating experience gave me a life-long love of politics and an extraordinary appreciation that miracles can occur if hard, hard work is a component...
...fair—and to leave you with one last piece of advice—I urge the same kind of reflection before you embark on any career path. Many people wander into life-long commitments without considering the likely effects on their happiness. If you enter a profession such as, say, corporate law simply because you’re good at reading, writing and arguing, and would like a big paycheck, and don’t know what else to do with yourself, don’t be surprised when the main accomplishment of your lawyerly efficiency...
Ultimately, though, the double standard is a problem for another day—and the specifics of Coyula-Cowley’s politics matter less than the fact that he is a willing, life-long functionary of a totalitarian state, and is therefore complicit in its crimes. If he is not directly responsible for them—well, in 1937, an architect named Albert Speer was not directly responsible for Nazi atrocities; indeed, he would always claim ignorance of them. But no one offered him a position at Harvard...
...many of her performances, Finley takes on the grandiose chauvinsim of a male-dominated art world. Her life-long commitment to feminism stems from her disgust at the way women have been shackled by their domestic role. As objects of desire, and thus objects of inspiration for male artists, women have only had a passive role in the history of western...