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...Streep and Robert Redford (he also directed) were the big guns in a civics lesson that blamed politicians, the media and the public. By doing wrong or doing nothing, we failed our troops, our country and our better selves. Cruise's first film for his United Artists proved a mission: impossible. It grossed a measly $6.7 million its opening weekend...
...gaining popularity. For some students, this means completing the cycle in the most direct fashion—leaving Cambridge to apply their education in their respective cities, states, or countries. But many other students, both American and not, are exploring other ways to plug the drain.GOING HOME WITH A MISSION Mariam O. Fofana ’06, a Quincy House tutor and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, is a member of the brain gain movement in its most classic sense. Originally from the West African nation of Côte d’Ivoire, she attended high school in Minnesota...
...narrow set of stairs leads visitors up to a room crowded floor-to-ceiling with books. The bookstore was founded by the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), USA, an organization whose agenda is to overthrow the capitalist system, guide society through socialism, and implant communism. “The mission of the store is to bring revolutionary politics to the people,” said Ben O’Leary, the middle-aged volunteer who was manning the bookstore Saturday evening. Wearing an anti-George Bush message on his t-shirt, O’Leary described the bookstore...
...idealism attended the birth of Anglo-Australia. White colonization in America began as a religious venture; the Puritans thought they were, literally, creating God's country. Australia, by contrast, began as the continent of sin, the dump for English criminals. Australians, unlike Americans, have never felt they had a mission or a message for a fallen world. There is no doctrine of Australian exceptionalism. If this deprived us of the heights of American moral expectation, it spared us from the anguish of American disappointment. Not a bad trade...
...having been in Australia for 40,000 years or more, in contrast to the whites' 200 or less, the Aborigines were not giving up. So the policy changed to assimilation. First, the Aborigines were deprived of their nomadic tribal life and concentrated in "mission stations," communities run mainly by Protestant evangelists, where they were taught the Gospels, shown white ways and prepared for low-level jobs as servants...