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...have a responsibility to the millions of Democrats who have participated in the election to maintain a basic level of civility. This applies equally to the candidates and their staffers and advisors. The sort of personal animosity that motivated Obama’s advisor and Kennedy School professor Samantha Power??s comment last week, calling Clinton a “monster,” simply cannot be tolerated. Otherwise, this race risks devolving into nothing more than a flurry of negative advertising, which hurts the Democrats’ chance of achieving the far more fundamental goal: defeating John...
Samantha Power, a professor at the Kennedy School and human rights advocate, has resigned as a top foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama after calling Hillary Clinton a “monster” in an interview with a British newspaper on Friday. Power??s statement, which she made to a reporter for The Scotsman, led to swift condemnation from the Clinton campaign and a disavowal from Obama. Power has since apologized to both campaigns, saying that the remarks were “inexcusable” and “at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration...
...seeking to present a non-aggressive face to the world, the “Department of War” became the “Department of Defense.” In response to numerous surveys confirming falling opinions of the United States around the world, the Commission on Smart Power??a bipartisan project chaired by Kennedy School of Government professor Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage—has suggested that the emphasis on a narrow “War on Terror” driven by self-interest should be replaced...
...cover of British Sea Power??s third album boldly inquires, “Do You Like Rock Music?” It’s an awful album title, but frankly it’s a good question for Americans to consider. With the rise of hip-hop and dance-pop, rock and roll’s popularity in the United States is tremendously low when compared to Europe. Sure, there was talk of a “rock revival” around the turn of the millennium, but most of the bands hyped during that movement have...
...Global Selection” screening, a few of the videos on display lived up to their high-art billing. Karina Garcia Casanova’s video for the song “Disown, Delete” by the Ensemble featuring Cat Power accompanied Cat Power??s breathy, threatening vocals with grainy, slow-motion video footage of hurricanes in action. As the song swelled to a kind of breathing, desperate mass, the video showed a world pulling itself apart shingle by shingle and branch by branch. Best of all, the video didn’t try to glamorize...