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They are also a vanishing breed: the war hero. Soldiers surely acted exemplarily in Korea, and Vietnam, and Iraq, but each of those conflicts exhausted the rooting interest of the American public, which eventually went looking not for battlefield derring-do but for statesmen who could clean up the mess. Eastwood's compassionate, cautionary tale speaks eloquently about a time when America needed heroes, and does so when we are no longer sure what they look like--when the indelible photo op of the Iraq war is from Abu Ghraib...
...have the technical skill to back up that claim, “Shooter”—bursting with simple but ultracharismatic swagger—shows that he just might be the best MC alive. Buried 16 songs deep into an 80-minute album, the glorious bloody mess of “Shooter” makes every other album track look like a bodyguard, a member of the faceless posse that accompanies any shining star. So why does the music video hold it back so grotesquely? Directed by Benny Boom, this expensive, cowardly straightjacket of a video turns...
...might give them a bad review!” Her musings about boys have drawn a lot of attention recently—maybe more than she wants. She suggests a love-hate relationship with publicity. “I just don’t want to mess up anyone else’s life, but I don’t care what the Harvard community reads or knows,” Chen says. “I think that’s one of the reason people read, because I am willing to talk about them. People are so careful...
...Many thanks to The Crimson for its fine coverage of the shameful Chester Douglass scandal (“At the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, One Professor’s Fluoride Scandal Stinks,” magazine, Sept. 27). Harvard continues to stonewall and hope that the whole sorry mess will just go away. Clearly, the millions of dollars of National Institutes of Health money that Douglass has brought into Harvard’s coffers supersede the significance of a few hundred victims of bone cancer each year. Douglass, a known proponent of water fluoridation and editor of a Colgate...
Again, the critique is one of realpolitik, and if anything, comes from the moderate right—Ricks is saying that we’ve made a mess, and the only way to fix it is with a Hail Mary decision to put more Special Forces troops into the fray...