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...Bobby, Jeff Barnett has a gawky charm eclipsed by the sophistication of his beloved, though there’s not much chemistry between them. As Polly’s father Everett, Evan A. North ‘05 manages to turn the plainest lines into jokes with his slow, painfully thoughtful delivery. The Follies are appropriately bouncy, and the cowboys, fully aware of being self-parodies, stage fake shootouts in the saloon and discuss the symbolism of Eugene O’Neill between folksongs...
...soon after he matriculated, the state government revoked his scholarship, citing language in the state constitution which, unlike the federal constitution, explicitly bars any state funding to sectarian institutions. Yet what now is being debated, depicted on one side by Solicitor General Ted Olson as “the plainest form of religious discrimination,” is merely a reincarnation of an unarguably discriminatory time in America’s history...
...though, is perhaps obvious to a fault. For in the days following the slew of incidents being reported, what began on campus as collective outrage quickly outran itself and sputtered into accusations of overworked hysteria and witch hunts targeting pro-war students. Somewhere, the issue most urgent and in plainest view—the breakdown of intellectual discourse at a university—got lost in the shuffle...
...terrorism. The meeting was relatively uneventful, though Joschka Fischer, Germany's Foreign Minister, said a military strike against Iraq would make fighting terrorism more difficult. But at the press conference afterward, de Villepin dropped his bomb. France, he said, thought that "nothing justifies envisaging military action." It was the plainest signal possible that so long as the inspectors were getting cooperation from Saddam, Paris would not support...
...strike with especial poignance to the college crowd. The sad and painful death of so many people resonates with students—many of whom frequent nightclubs regularly. It seems that disasters such as these could strike at a club near Harvard, or any college campus, in the plainest and most ordinary of circumstances...