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...embargo next Monday. There's scant support for continued sanctions in the U.S. foreign policy, defense, intelligence or business establishment, much less among Washington's allies in Latin America - or even among Cuba's small dissident community. But no matter how much it's questioned in the realm of foreign policy, the embargo is considered sound domestic politics. President Clinton tightened it early in 1996, not because anyone in his administration believed it was a rational policy, but simply in order to appeal to a powerful swing-state political machine ahead of his reelection campaign. And with Florida having been...
...evening even wandered from the realm of serious music and ventured briefly into improv territory. O’Malley plays piano for Immediate Gratification Players (IGP), a campus improv comedy troupe, and he briefly presented a routine with fellow IGP member David Modigliani...
...admittedly, a perfectly sensible question. I have never seen a fairy, of course—not many people do nowadays, at least in this part of the world. But if one were to put in a sinister appearance tonight—and it would be sinister, since the realm of faerie is by all accounts dark and perilous—I would be far better equipped to deal with it than the average materialist, whose entire edifice of belief would be dynamited in an instant—and by a single leprechaun, no less...
Perhaps they’re right. But it behooves me to point out that if there were a supernatural realm, or realms, one would not expect its secrets to lie open to the probings of skeptical scientists and self-assured Harvardians. Indeed, one would expect the supernatural to impinge upon our own world only occasionally, in places where the wall between the two spheres was rubbed thin—or cleaved, briefly, by the Hand...
...adequate support for this bold claim. After all, how many Asian-American musical artists in America today can rival the popularity of Britney Spears in Asia? Whereas American culture in Asia is seen as a force of modernization, it seems that Asian culture in America is limited to the realm of kitschy pop culture, like the Chinese characters and designs that bombard shoppers at Urban Outfitters. Cohen’s desire to demonstrate the growing Asian influence on America often leads to exaggeration...