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...world where Christians are routinely tortured, murdered, or forcibly converted for possession of the Bible, that the Koran is banned and proscribed. While it is not overly surprising that a movie based on a book—a “graphic novel” to be precise??that damned Thatcherism as racist, authoritarian, and even fascist, is often juvenile, my disappointment stems form the fact that the movie could have been great. The parts of the movie that dealt with the stifling woodenness of totalitarian vocabulary, the weariness bred by constant exposure to lies, and the indestructibility...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis, | Title: V for Vacuous | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

Although John F. Kennedy ’40 is often remembered as the youngest to serve as president, he was only—to be completely precise??the youngest elected president, winning election when he was 43. The distinction of youngest to be president actually belongs to Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, who ascended to the most powerful position in the country at the tender age of 42 after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. Eight years later, at the time in their lives when most politicians are just beginning to hit their peak, Roosevelt was already...

Author: By David Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: 'When Trumpets Call' Tells Tale of TR's Twilight Years | 4/6/2005 | See Source »

Sure enough he was a tutor—Daniel Sussner of Kirkland’s ‘J’ entry, a history tutor and Foreign Cultures 21 TF, to be precise??though the relevance of that claim continues to elude all with whom I’ve shared the fact. Once it has been made clear that this entire saga played out in the stands, and not in his section, anyway...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: McGINN 'N TONIC: Revisiting Harvard Football Etiquette | 11/23/2004 | See Source »

...with this year’s influx of freshmen—nine, to be precise??will Bernakevitch still be able to generate such offense...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Centering Force | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...federal legislation protecting gay marriage, individual states have no choice but to buck that trend by honoring gay rights one by one. With any luck the Massachusetts state legislature will follow the SJC’s lead as soon as possible—about six months, to be precise??and legalize gay marriage...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Opening the Doors to Marriage | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

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