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...followers of the fascistically minded Vladimir Zhirinovsky unexpectedly won 23% of the popular vote in the recent parliamentary elections and became an ominous new power. Zhirinovsky's ascent looked disturbingly similar in some details (anti-Semitism, fanatical nationalism, anger and economic privation among the people) to Hitler's rise in the 1930s. When incoming CIA Director James Woolsey testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last February, he described the realities of the new world order: ''We have slain a large dragon, but we live now in a jungle filled with a bewildering variety of poisonous snakes.'' For years...
...queen of extra-credit, I have certainly experienced my fair share of such ill-fated infatuations. Whether it is the smell of leather, the unwashed hair, or their cozy relationship with the dean of students, bad boys have always made my knees buckle under and my heart rate rise. Since sophomore year of high school when I fell for a tall senior who brought illicit substances to Saturday night dances, played the guitar (Dylan. Attempts at Dylan.), and seemed never to study, I’ve opted for the rebel over Mr. Right. There was a second musician: we discussed...
...Line of Beauty.” (When asked what Thatcher thought of his depiction, Hollinghurst opined dryly, “I don’t think she reads much contemporary fiction.”)Perhaps the most cataclysmically influential event of his pre-novel years was the rise of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-80s. Hollinghurst witnessed his own Oxford friend become one of the first known British casualties in 1984, when “nobody understood the disease. There was this tremendous ostracizing of the victim and the victim’s family out of ignorance and fear...
...first two (“American Beauty,” “Road to Perdition”), it dances around the subject of violence. As it follows the action of the first Gulf War, we sense chaos indirectly. We see bomb blasts reflected through windows; we watch smoke rise above the bodies of Iraqi civilians, recently burnt off-screen. This violence is filtered through the eyes of narrator Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), the everyman U.S. Marine, or “jarhead,” whose war autobiography this movie adapts. While training, Swofford is selected to join an elite...
...department of African-American Studies celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2004. Although Af-Am has now been a fixture at Harvard for a generation, it wasn’t until 1991, when Gates took charge as Department Chair, that it truly embarked on its rise to greatness...