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...corruption of the Republic, and that somebody had to fight it. "One day Princess Leia and her friends woke up and said, 'This isn't the Republic anymore, it's the Empire. We are the bad guys. Well, we don't agree with this. This democracy is a sham, it's all wrong...
...this way any longer!"(Washington's plangent contralto makes this line a heartbreaker.) Her exit line: "I know it's asking a lot. But I've got to live my own life. "On the movie's terms, this is only an imitation of life, a sham citizenship, and Peola will pay for it. After Delilah dies, of a broken heart, Peola appears at the funeral and, in one of the cinema's primal weepie tropes, throws herself at the casket. Perhaps we are meant to find Peola guilty of matricide. But in Washington's mien and method...
...Mattie J. Germer ’03, that was exactly the matter. Raised Lutheran, she had briefly considered converting to Catholicism in high school, but eventually abandoned the idea. She stopped going to church completely and considered herself an agnostic. “I thought religion was a sham,” she recalls. “An interesting sham, and a culturally relevant sham, but not something I really wanted to believe...
...television advertising that we've seen in the last two election cycles," Corrado believes. The millions of dollars in unregulated soft money enabled the two parties to spend lavishly on TV. They won't able to do as much of that under the new regulations, which also ban sham "issue" ads being broadcast on TV or radio just before an election, whose real purpose is to attack a candidate. But the bill allows corporations, labor unions and especially special interest groups to pump practically all the money they want into grass-roots activities, such as get-out-the-vote drives...
Harvard management’s sham offers and bad faith are even more disturbing to watch when one considers the significant contrast in social, economic and ethnic backgrounds between the two sides of the table. Harvard’s cadre of lawyers—all white save one—consists of high-powered, generously-compensated and fully-benefited employees who enjoy positions of privilege and comfortable lifestyles and salary. On the other side of the table is the union’s team. They are 12 workers of diverse backgrounds but several common experiences—poverty, hardship, incredibly...