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...that particular terminology. She innovatively turns the term on its head, saying “Postcolonial is a way of reading, not a way of writing.” In a similarly inventive way, her own work focuses on the ways in which language is used to categorize and portray, and the ways in which language is ineluctably tied to identity. Sen speaks of languages as if they themselves are actors and have agency, describing them as “wily survivalists.” She posits that as languages get incorporated into cultures, they cease...
...Granted, when such a watered down bill came back to the Senate, Reid could still block it by filibustering. But in a election year, Reid knew that could be political suicide, forcing fellow Democrats to vote against a bill Republicans would portray as securing America's broken borders. Those Democrats who were around in the last mid-term election are still smarting from the votes they cast against the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, an issue Republicans cashed in handily at the polls. Giving Frist another National Security vote to beat the Democrats with, they feared...
...what is not so typical about this rendition is the directing. Though some consider and portray theatrical farce quaint and Victorian, director Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05 advocates that this is “not [her] style” and that she sought to “take the story that’s offered… on its own terms.” Myhrum suggests that this approach both exposes the ever-appreciated comic chaos of Gilbert and Sullivan’s work and the beauty of a script that “does something...
...USAID signs in the West Bank and Gaza portray American aid as a “gift from the American people to the Palestinian people.” If that aid is conditional on the way Palestinians vote, it is less a gift than a bribe...
Jack P. McCambridge ’06 of Winthrop house drew stares in a Mr. Incredible muscle suit and wig. He said the costume was meant to portray the “idealized Winthropian...