Word: resistance
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...authoritarian socialism.” The reality remains that Chavez’s project of 21st century socialism is a complicated affair, but one with which—today—progressives must stand in critical solidarity. This requires two things.First, we must doggedly document and resist the arrogant propagandizing that scars this country’s mainstream intellectual currents. Partly, this position needs to be understood as a rejection of the priorities of American Empire: When a resource-rich client economy jumps from the neoliberal bandwagon, as Venezuela under Chavez has done, it should be unsurprising that it becomes...
...young love at the pinnacle of cliché. Indeed, the moments at which Jordin appears on the carousel or along the boardwalk are almost eerily reminiscent of another young starlet’s early romantic musings. Watching Jordin’s video, it’s hard to resist thinking of the video for Britney Spears’s “Sometimes.” Tattooed on many of our minds, ”Sometimes” presented an early version of our favorite good girl gone bad and lamenting her own romantic travails on a boardwalk...
...February snow and March mud.Sometime last winter, that all began to change for me. A friendly fellow Adams House resident showed up at the door, promising better lighting. Getting up at 10 a.m. in January allows for little more than six hours of sunlight a day. How could I resist? Off went my old light bulbs, in came the new—strange, corkscrew-shaped compact fluorescent lights. Under the guise of warmer lighting, I had taken my first, unknowing step towards ending global warming. Like that, an insidious green monster snuck into our unguarded two-room triple...
...cliché has it, the ghost haunting the attic of everyone's mind, but the movies don't usually play it that way. They turn it into melodrama's force majeure, the sneering, swaggering (and generally well-armed) bully it is the hero's duty to resist and ultimately defeat - thoughts of his own inevitable mortality being matters for that last reel that no one ever bothers to shoot. Or think about...
...Only males who could withstand the negative fallout of higher testosterone levels are showing the signals of having better genes to resist disease,” Marlowe said...