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Harvey A. Silverglate, a criminal defense attorney, civil liberties litigator and author of The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses, said he opposes the Ad Board’s procedural change...
...friends. The marathon’s motto, “United We Run,” captured the spirit of the event. Never, perhaps, has the image of 30,000—Canadians, Ethiopians, and New Yorkers among them—running in one swift motion, under the invisible shadow of two great landmarks, been so strikingly poignant...
Likewise, before and after the anthrax scares, 800,000 U.S. postal employees worked at a place infamous for turning people into maniacs. And the African-American citizens of the Washington area still live and sort mail in the shadow of the largely white U.S. Capitol, which has long inhabited a cleaner and safer parallel universe...
...Bush has not missed a chance to praise Americans for their kindness and spirit, has urged us to move forward, hope for the best. He talks about evil like one who believes in it but is still surprised when he encounters it. Vice President Dick Cheney is a stern shadow President in night-vision goggles, and last week his job was to prepare us for darker days to come. "We have to assume there will be more attacks," he said. "And for the first time in our history, we will probably suffer more casualties here at home in America than...
...shared values and experiences has been channeled into new works that, lacking her former intellectual rigor, are more consolatory than conceptual. “Blueprint for a Sunrise” (2000), for example, which Ono performed for her Harvard audience last Sunday, is a healing but ultimately hollow shadow of more powerful early imaginings, while her political rhetoric—that we bring “light to those in darkness” in the case of Islamic fundamentalism—now appears painfully out of touch. Though she transcended the limits of artistic tradition in witty and inspiring ways...