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...Alala” Dir. Cat Solen Cute! Hip! Irreverent! Mildly clever! Vaguely obscure! And Brazilian! That pretty much sums up all of the hype surrounding hipster-in-a-can band CSS, which stands for “Cansei de Ser Sexy.” That’s right??not just tirelessly sexy, but tired of being sexy. And for good reason—their image is so perfectly contrived for the moment that it must be exhausting to keep up. Everything about them just begs for awkward worship from awkward fans. Doll-faced half-Japanese poster-girl...
This isn’t the only example of the religious right??s impact on faith-based initiatives; in 2004, conservative Christian psychologist James Dobson put pressure on United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, to sack global health director Anne Peterson over her marginal support of condom usage, according to a Boston Globe investigative report last month. Dobson, known for heartily endorsing the corporal punishment of children and for once declaring, “homosexuality…will destroy the Earth,” is only one of several evangelicals who have forced the government?...
...substandard ice cream shop. There are far too many flavors, they are all unhealthy, and in the end, they do not even taste good. Across the political spectrum—from the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) on the left to Harvard Right to Life (HRL) on the right??campus activists hold unrealistic goals and use tactics that are poorly designed and alienating to those who might otherwise support them. Activists would gain wider acceptance and would be far more effective if they were more reasonable and pragmatic...
...encounter such examples of well-dressed, smart people behaving badly, I silently wonder to myself, where are the Saudi religious police when you need them? Some will call this attitude Puritanical, a word that sounds nastier than it should, and will boldly defend students’ “right??—the most overused word of the 20th century—to do whatever they want whenever they want to.But I’m more inclined to agree with what the ethicist Peter Lawler has written, that our loss of Puritanism “has exacted...
...Finally, while the central thesis of “Enough” is certainly persuasive, it is not very original. Black intellectuals, like economists Thomas Sowell ’58 and Glenn Loury, have been making Williams’ arguments for years. Even when Williams is clearly right??such as in his broadsides against rap music (it’s misogynist) and the reparations movement (it’s a logistical nightmare)—he says little that readers haven’t heard before...