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...race but about someone who is mentally ill,” said Christopher M. Pak ’08, co-president of the Harvard Korean Students Association. Pak said he thinks the Facebook groups are largely the work of high school students. But Pak said he is concerned that mainstream media outlets have referred to the shooter as Cho Seung-Hui rather than the reverse, Seung-Hui Cho. “They reversed his name in the way that you would say it in Korean, where you put the family name first,” Pak said...
...difficult to recall now, but there was a period 50 years ago when psychedelics were not only part of the mainstream but of the Establishment. Many academics and wealthy experimental types believed that the way psychedelics work - by expanding sensory awareness even as they disrupt control over the way you normally process information - would lead people to great insights. It didn't always turn out that way: some people had great insights; others ended up with not-so-great addictions...
...Tough words - especially because, here in America, much of the mainstream media was also cheering. McCain, a onetime media favorite when he last ran for President, was effectively forswearing the possibility of regaining their favor...
...Meanwhile, the mainstream media paid little attention to Harry Reid's comments quoted above. Republican criticisms of them were treated as the normal tit-for-tat of partisan politics. Reid's cynicism wasn't thought noteworthy, and his defeatism wasn't thought extraordinary. Apparently, cynicism in the service of the defeat of Republicans is no vice. Undercutting the efforts of American troops you have voted to send to fight in a war is a virtue...
...Sarkozy's high first-round score reflects his success in seducing hard- and extreme-right voters, but he'll pay for that in the second round," predicts Pierre Moscovici, a Socialist Party heavyweight and vice-president of the European Parliament. While mainstream conservatives backing Sarkozy's tax-cutting, market-friendly economic polices may overlook his repeated pledges to help Le Pen voters "out of their ghetto" and into his camp, Moscovici warns that the hard-right lean will repel most people who supported Bayrou. "Sarkozy reminds me of Berlusconi," Moscovici comments. "The Italian right forgave him every excess, the Italian...