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...skills of Senate horse trading -- "you get my vote on bill A for your vote on bill B" -- are of no use, though, in building alliances at the court, where Justices attract support by shaping decisions to neutralize the doubts of wavering allies."Ideas are the coin of the realm, not trades," says Yale law professor Akhil Amar...
...restrictions, legislation and governmental tough talk has elevated the antismoking campaign to new heights. Before, it was a matter of health warnings, moral persuasion and segregation of the warring parties. Now smoking is in danger of being legislated virtually out of existence -- or at least shoved into the realm of behavior so socially reviled that it must be practiced only in private...
Harvard's newest force in the realm of drama, the Adams House Pool Theater Company, staged an ambitious effort to bring its dramatic vision to life in the hallowed halls of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this past weekend. Unfortunately, the effort was not wholly sucessful. Having meandered thourgh the beautiful rooms of the Gardner Museum en route to the theater, sold-out audiences found themselves disillusioned at having to cram into an inconvenient space and strain their necks to catch a glimpse of the distant stage. Those who could see witnessed a still rough rendition of Aristophanes' most popular...
...with her unique voice, husky, slightly raspy, but nevertheless smooth, like honey shot through with smoke. To hear that voice speaking French is something of a revelation. Even in claptrap like "La Femme Nikita," her distinctive voice elevated the pedestrian dialogue about a woman's beauty to the realm of poetry. Her voice cracks words open to reveal their intrinsic poetry and beauty, and when she sings, she is dangerously enchanging. Is it any wonder that Jim, Jules and Albert find her irresistible...
Inevitably, Harper's calls to re-examine the connection between literary theory and wider issues in contemporary political culture. "I find myself personally moving beyond the literary in so far as it seems to a large degree in the extra-literary realm that our sense of ourselves as individuals and as communities and as nations is forged. The way I'm working lately is to identify various issues and problems that seen to leap out at me from other geners, other media...and then to interogate these through a literary text...