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...much of a stretch to see all these investigations and authority figures as a kind of shadow 9/11 drama. (Who is stern-talking Oprah protege Dr. Phil, after all, but a more down-home John Ashcroft?) Hollywood's crime stories were neither uniformly authoritarian nor bleeding heart. FX's cop drama The Shield introduced Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), a crooked, brutal--and extremely effective--L.A. cop, and left it up to us to decide whether his results justified his means. HBO's The Wire used the story of a single Baltimore drug investigation as a parable for the crisis...
Regardless, Northeastern is a team whose offensive firepower won’t give Ruddock a challenge relative to the high competition she’s already faced. The Huskies are a shadow of the team that fell just short of a Frozen Four bid a year ago. Many of its seniors—including Patty Kazmaier winner Brooke Whitney—have since graduated, though former U.S. national team speedster Brooke White is still playing out her eligibility...
...deliberately bombing civilians during World War II. Book-stores teem with his biographies, including new entries by historians John Ramsden, John Lukacs and John Keegan, plus a novel based on his fleeting acquaintance with the notorious spy Guy Burgess. More than four decades after his death, Winston Churchill's shadow falls heavily over Britain...
That's the starting point for historian David Cannadine's fascinating collection of essays, In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain. To Cannadine, the story of modern Britain is "the feeling that things were no longer as great or as stable or as splendid as they had once been." As empire and prosperity slipped away, a few voices rose to stem history's tide. He assesses the efforts of comic-opera geniuses Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as novelist Ian Fleming, whose agent James Bond was a one-man antidote to the Cold War. Also Margaret Thatcher...
...college many of us don’t have that luxury of distance, and yet we still cheat. At Harvard, like on so many other campuses, cheating is the shadow institution that sustains some of our relationships. Brandt argues that the culture of Harvard might encourage cheating to a degree many of us aren’t even aware...