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...scurrilous and partisan. Marketing spin and advertising extend their influence as never before. A fresh urban-youth subculture has emerged, rude and vibrant, entertainment-fixated and violence-glorifying. Christian conservatives are furiously battling cultural decadence, and one popular sect insists that the end days are nigh. Ferocious anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise. Both major American political parties seem pathetically unable to deal with the looming, urgent issue of the day. Insurgents practicing asymmetrical warfare have, practically overnight, threatened to bring down the political order of Western civilization. And the President has tapped into patriotic rage to invade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1848: When America Came of Age | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

Durkin echoes the sentiment, saying “Most of the students at Stanford are very, very happy. It’s hard not to be happy here...

Author: By Jessica M. Luna, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Peacing Out | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...Polo Club got $1,000. At the very least, the UC should have passed a last-ditch amendment which would have still provided papers on the condition that HoCos foot half the bill. Since the bill failed, students have vented their disappointed to their UC representatives. We echo this sentiment and hope that the UC will find a way to make The New York Times permanently available in dining halls as soon as possible...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Please Pass the Newspaper | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...President Hugo Chavez. But the five countries Bush has chosen for his six-day Latin America tour that starts today in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are led by either kindred conservatives or more moderate leftists. And the venues he's visiting are often far from metropolis hotbeds of anti-yanqui sentiment - like Merida, on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, a sleepy Maya world away from the Mexico City streets that were paralyzed by leftist protests last summer after conservative Felipe Calderon won the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Heads South to Mend Fences | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...racism, post-anything-not-very-nice. So within post-homophobia, for instance, is the implicit assumption that the teller of the joke (and the audience, too) is not homophobic, which means the joke teller is free to trot out every formerly “offensive” stereotype or sentiment in the service of a good joke...

Author: By Ben Kawaller | Title: The Era of PoHoMoPho | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

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