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...weapons of mass destruction. Likewise, he came under national spotlight when the New York Philharmonic asked him to write a memorial piece for Sept. 11 in 2002. He snagged the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Music for that piece. While the two works on this album do not have the overt political significance of his Pulitzer Prize-winning, 9/11-themed “On the Transmigration of Souls,” they are nonetheless important additions to the repertory of American classical music. Though “My Father Knew Charles Ives” has its flaws, the beauty and cathartic quality...
...crux of Williams and Cosby’s case is that poor blacks should be less concerned with overt and “systemic” racism—obstacles such as structural wealth inequalities—and focus instead on what they can do to improve their own lots. This, they argue, is the path to black self-empowerment...
...uneducated and prejudiced. I guess with a society built on contradictions, you can only have an ambivalent relationship." And she finds its government repulsive. "What puts us [in Europe] off most is its in-your-face hypocrisy. It's this idea of American exceptionalism, the moral talk and the overt and often naïve religiousness." Of course there is a wide spectrum of European opinion toward the U.S., and not all of it is well-informed. But Senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, told me that his greatest worry about U.S. foreign policy is that...
...have been saying that the party has no legitimacy; that its claims of representation are a tattered veil for its true function of repression; that for all their apparent obedience, passivity and discipline, many or even most of the populace are not just unhappy but deeply angry and increasingly overt in their defiance. Still, the seven-week-long student protest in Tiananmen Square hit with the impact of a revelation...
...system, founded in the mid-'60s, is controlled not by a government agency but by the very industry that manufactures the product - to be precise, by the six major studios that constitute the MPAA. In a way, it's an earlier, more overt form notion of regulation popular in the Bush Administration, where lobbyists frequently write the legislation that cover the industry they works for. The MPAA is basically the big studios' lobbying organization, pressuring Congress to pass certain laws (like the ones against movie piracy) and to hold off on others (like, heaven forfend, a federal ratings system...