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...more suspicious than they are already? The biggest reason to go open kimono is that the present system does what journalism should never do: it perpetuates a lie. Modern political journalism is based on the bogus concept of neutrality (that people can be steeped in campaigns yet not care who wins) and the legitimate ideal of fairness (that people can place intellectual integrity and rigor over their rooting interests). Voting and disclosing would expose the sham of neutrality-which few believe anyway-and compel opinion and news writers alike to prove, story by story, that fairness is possible anyway. Partisans...
Alas, violence is all too present. Abu Dhaim's killing spree--along with a suicide bombing in the Negev town of Dimona last month--highlights Israel's continued vulnerability to terrorist attacks. Just because fewer Palestinian terrorists are slipping into Israel from the Palestinian West Bank doesn't mean that they have stopped trying. Says an officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF): "Our people sleep comfortably in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv because the IDF is putting in a huge effort, day and night, in the West Bank to prevent terror...
...some ways this is inevitable. Compared with art's history, which is largely sorted out, the present is always a mess, full of dwarf stars and bit players. Any of-the-moment show is guaranteed to bring those in by the carload. It doesn't help that in some years the Biennial's organizers have had a weakness for the slapdash and infantile, and in others for the most schoolmarmish kind of political correctness...
...Hawks (0-5) did not present much of a formidable opponent for the red-hot Crimson (3-1). After a slight blip in the season opener, Harvard has reversed its fortunes entirely by rattling off three straight. In the series history against Hartford, the Crimson had won all but the first of six total meetings going into yesterday’s matchup...
...Senator Clinton, made similar remarks to the New York Sun suggesting that Clinton would not immediately remove troops from Iraq either. Yoseph S. Ayele ’11, a student this past semester in Power’s freshman seminar “The United Nations, Past and Present: Can the UN Be Fixed? Is the UN the Problem?” said that Power was a greatly inspiring professor who “cares a lot about humanity.” “She would be an excellent foreign policy advisor for any President, and she really does...