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...movement are still with us. As we continue to fight racism, let’s hope that one day the n-word will lose all of its power. Let’s hope that one day, calling someone a “nigger” will be about as pointless and silly as is calling someone a “commie” today...

Author: By Andrew C. Esensten | Title: The Last Taboo | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

...that he can't just dismiss the views of those on the other side. That may be politicking to earn my vote, but if a pro-life Republican ultimately sends us into a third world war with status quo Republican rhetoric, a pro-life position is kind of pointless. Eric Murr Greencastle, Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/11/2006 | See Source »

...other cases of spontaneous anthropomorphism, it ends up becoming a cheap plot prop. Other points in the movie feature computer-generated modeling of Harold’s thoughts, but this technique, too, is used so rarely as to become superfluous. There’s so much cool but pointless visual trickery in this film that one begins to suspect Forster is attempting to distract you from the thin, weak narrative. The trick backfires, however, as the film never quite coheres, due in large part to its unjustified cinematic bells and whistles. The truly endearing quirks are the more organic ones...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Stranger Than Fiction | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...that he can't just dismiss the views of those on the other side. That may be politicking to earn my vote, but if a pro-life Republican ultimately sends us into a third world war with status quo Republican rhetoric, a pro-life position is kind of pointless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 13, 2006 | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...nothing like Vietnam or any other U.S. experience, but both sides in the American debate over the war have chosen to ignore them. For the antiwar left, Iraq has always recalled the great American trauma of Vietnam, a misguided war of choice that ended badly after a decade of pointless savagery; for the war's advocates on the right, Iraq recalled the great American triumph of rebuilding postwar Japan and Germany. Yes, it is hard to imagine that they were serious, but it wasn't simply PR, either - some of the policy documents used by the U.S. occupation administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No, Iraq Is Not Vietnam | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

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