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...those who pore over every rise or fall in the polls, who hash out the byzantine intricacies of health care or foreign policy, to do a simple thing: Embrace the anarchy in your life. I don’t mean for you to take up a black flag, riot in the streets, or shoot President McKinley. I mean something that is more human than political wonkery, something you forget as you are overcome by primaries and polls. Politics is important, but some things in life should remain personal...
Starting Feb. 22 at the Loeb Experimental Theater, Harvard’s Immediate Gratification Players (IGP), a long-form improvisation comedy group, will present “IGP Laugh Riot Festival X: The Enchanted Forest.” The show will also feature groups from several other colleges. Due to the Roving Reporter’s lack of comedic talent, this paragraph is not interesting.Kevin T. Burrows ’10RR: Tell me about the Immediate Gratification Players.KB: IGP is a long-form improv comedy troupe. Usually what we’ll do is take a one-word suggestion...
PARIS Police raid housing projects to arrest riot suspects...
...wanting to create fear," Royal told France Inter radio following the sweeps. If so, it wasn't the first time police and media activities in France's troubled housing projects were apparently used for political communication. In the autumn of, 2006, for example, units of over 100 riot cops staged raids in two troubled suburbs west of Paris with scores of journalists in tow - in both cases making few arrests, with no charges ultimately filed. At the time, Sarkozy was busy building his presidential hopes on the tough, law-and-order reputation he was carving out as Interior Minister, especially...
Given the scenes Monday of microphones being thrust into doorways stormed by riot police, and the virtual integration of journalists within the operation, there is no doubt the media was a desired presence. But by whom? Participating reporters said they were alerted as early as last Friday by officials of unions representing police officers. Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie strongly condemned those "leaks that produced such significant media attention to this operation" - ones that she noted "could have had grave consequences" for its success. Other government officials similarly scoffed at the notion of Sarkozy or his cabinet else risking...