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...Moderates, according to Usher, are frightened and saddened by the war in Iraq but support it nonetheless as the only way to dismantle an intolerable global threat. In fact, however, this is precisely the pro-war position. No one on this campus wants war for the sake of war, no matter how strongly they may display their approval of the current campaign...
...crucial place of art in times of war. Chip by chip, nationality by nationality, you could hear the showbiz contingent of the Coalition of the Willing cracking asunder. I applaud the eloquence, poignance and sheer brass of these statements, especially since I agree with them. (Just for the sake of contrarianism, I would like to have heard someone, in that overwhelmingly liberal house, speak up for Dubya Dubya Three...
...Western products that have made him a dependent consumer." When Bizot points out that Cambodian peasants are destitute of almost everything, including imports, Douch is deaf to him: years before the triumph of the Khmer Rouge, both the man and the system had sacrificed basic human values for the sake of abstract, lethal rhetoric...
...rollbacks of the mid-’90s. But like his promise to save the state more than $2 billion, Romney’s refusal to raise taxes may be especially harmful to the state. That Romney is sacrificing the welfare of the people of Massachusetts for the sake of his campaign promises is a true sign of poor leadership...
With the possible exception of Eminem and a few veteran rappers like Snoop Dogg, it just seems like music has become a means to an end rather than art for art’s sake. Musicians are preoccupied with staying in the spotlight rather than with writing music. We’ve granted them a measure of fame they don’t deserve. What should have been 15 minutes of popularity has turned into almost a decade of painfully saccharine cliches...