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...presidential campaign.All of this political categorization would be mere speculation if it weren’t for the content of the trailer. In just one minute and 44 seconds there are: two jokes disparaging homosexuals, a longer riff on Muslims, a scene in which Gary Coleman portrays a modern slave, one random shot of Trace Adkins in front of an American flag shouting “This is the greatest country in the whole wide world,” one suicide bomber joke, and two ridiculous quotes from the fake Michael Moore (“I love America and that?...
...portrays the black community’s violent riots in Newark, New Jersey, in the summer of 1967. It goes on to discuss how “the plight of the poor is forgotten” in the history of the ’60s and in important modern policy decisions. A panel of current organizers in Harvard’s black community and in Newark discussed these issues after the film. The organized urban violence of the 1960s was most often a response to both civil discrimination and poverty in the black community, the panelists said. According to Walter...
...these are merely short breaks, the instrumentals in and of themselves are mystical and magical, but also crucial, for they create much of the mood and ambience. Barber’s use of loops and syncopated rhythms covers everything from the sounds of the tribal and primordial to the modern and futuristic. The sixth track alone takes the listener on an excursion from the calm landscape to the midnight jungle, offering a perfect transition into the seventh track “Namer.” On eighth track “Golden,” the overall sound lends itself...
...opened to students on September 15, 2008, the first day of classes.Located just beyond the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH), the building defines the far end of the grassy quadrangle that stretches from HMNH to the sidewalk. In the nebulous land beyond the Science Center, riddled with other modern concoctions whose entrances are even more convoluted than the Green Line, the Northwest Science Building provides order and clarity.Every aspect of the building—from the multi-storied walls of glass to the shiny silver handrails—has a certain sleekness; it’s an Apple product...
...Oval Office, Obama made a judicious choice, especially in light of the competence questions that have continually dogged Biden's embattled Republican counterpart, Sarah Palin. Indeed, even the Republicans - who have hit their opponents on a wide range of issues, in keeping with the nonstop attack politics of the modern era - have not disputed Biden's readiness to lead. But as the vice-presidential hopeful heads into Thursday's debate with Palin, his unflagging propensity to make absurd, imprudent and often offensive statements is once again weighing heavily on Democrats' minds. (See a gallery of campaign gaffes here...