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...teaching of evolution—leading me to believe that the evolution debate was what the play was all about. Little did I know that, by 1955, evolution was no longer the issue at hand. Rather, Lawrence and Lee intended their play to be a reflection of the rampant anti-intellectualism and stifling of informed public debate that predominated in the McCarthy era. My mistake, however, was at least partially forgivable: by the time I watched the movie, in 2002, the focus of such controversy had shifted once again, away from communism and back to, of all things, evolution. This...
...Fatah was rejected by Palestinian voters because of its rampant corruption and its failure to bring tangible gains to the Palestinians. In the months since its drubbing at the polls, the movement has further discredited itself on the Palestinian street, where its gunmen are mounting attacks on both Israel and on Palestinian institutions in the hope of undermining the new Hamas government. The idea that Fatah can, in the near future, be voted back into power looks farfetched to close observers of Palestinian politics. Indeed, many fear that if the decision by the Islamists to enter democratic politics is thwarted...
...institutions.Bean said that in his experience, cheating was more of a problem at Harvard than it is at Haverford. “Cheating—the most serious matter in an academic code of any kind—unfortunately exists everywhere, and while I would not say it was rampant, in my experience, at Harvard, it was somewhat surprising to see, during my three years on the Ad Board, just how much of it there was and how astonishing some of the cases were...
...teaching of evolution—leading me to believe that the evolution debate was what the play was all about. Little did I know that, by 1955, evolution was no longer the issue at hand. Rather, Lawrence and Lee intended their play to be a reflection of the rampant anti-intellectualism and stifling of informed public debate that predominated in the McCarthy era. My mistake, however, was at least partially forgivable: by the time I watched the movie, in 2002, the focus of such controversy had shifted once again, away from communism and back to, of all things, evolution. This...
...postwar America that Fitzgerald was writing of is in many ways similar to the 1990s, that barnyard decade between the Cold War and the new, and as yet unnamed, era that our new historians will judge as an interlude of easy fortunes, rampant optimism, and unbridled greed. It was one big party...