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...Sneer at Our Heroes Your interview with Clint Eastwood and your glowing review of his movie Flags of Our Fathers [Oct. 23] disparaged the idea of war heroism at a time when the U.S., in the hard years to come, is going to desperately need heroes and patriots. Although the movie is ostensibly about the World War II battle of Iwo Jima and our government's propaganda campaign around the famous flag-raising photo, Eastwood obviously meant it as a comment on the Iraq war and the cynical machinations of the Bush Administration. I hold no brief for Bush...
...Reilly called Pelosi a “committed secular progressive,” whatever that means, and asked, “Should Americans vote for San Francisco values or for perceived failure overseas?” Current Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert, in National Review Online last week, asked, “Do we really want Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco values leading the culture war?” Hastert’s predecessor, Newt Gingrich, echoed him, asking in a Republican National Committee letter, “Will everything you’ve worked...
...going to think about whether I’d like to take on further responsibilities and whether that will be best for the UC and for the campus.” Petersen’s involvement with the Council has been broad, encompassing work on the curricular review to the development of the Lamont Library Café. Despite Petersen’s close-lippedness, the UC members say Petersen has chosen Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 as his running mate. Sundquist, a popular sophomore with an easy-going personality, has been substantially involved in the UC even...
...Indian governments are often at loggerheads with the Supreme Court. In 1971, parliament took the extreme measure of passing an amendment to create a new section of the constitution in which laws are beyond judicial review. Last week, the Court, which has long held that the move was invalid and has created a repository for tainted laws, heard arguments for and against the right of the state of Tamil Nadu to use the amendment to reserve government jobs for the underprivileged. The Court has yet to hand down its decision...
...recently started meeting in sub-committees of three to review submissions and provide initial feedback on proposals...