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...propositions Roza, an illegal Yugoslav immigrant in her 20s, who has donned a short skirt and fur jacket merely to see what trouble she can stir. She invites him to her dingy basement apartment for coffee and starts telling him about her life as the daughter of a communist partisan. They forge a friendship, with Chris visiting Roza often to listen to her tales of the mundane (pets, first loves and summer camp) and the sensational - war, incest and rape. "I don't know why I am telling you all this," says Roza. "It's not important, it's just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louis de Bernières: Going Nowhere | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...says panelist Shauna L. Shames ’01, a graduate student in government. “It’s good to be pro-choice, but bad to be for abortion,” But this semantic Hollywood argument disregards the importance of debate all-together, using a partisan issue to benefit a politically-correct weakling of a film industry. “Babies and pregnancy and getting together with a guy are what make a happy ending to a story,” audience member Amanda L. Shapiro ’08 says. While it?...

Author: By Lauren J. Vargas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pregnant Pause in Hollywood | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard’s policy on ROTC came to the center of recent partisan debate on campus this semester, when the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) approached the Harvard Democrats, with a proposal aimed at addressing “areas in which Harvard falls short of providing an environment of respect and encouragement of [its ROTC cadets’] service...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, Athena Y. Jiang, and Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Will ROTC Return? | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...Despite these precautions, the death toll for journalists is higher in this war than in any other conflict, according to the non-partisan press foundation, Freedom Forum...

Author: By Abby D. Phillip, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Words From the Front | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...speech that was not partisan. It was political with a small p and it was also philosophical. It was the most profound speech about race that I could recall in my lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reaction to the Obama Speech | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

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