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...pseudo-religious shenanigans of Constantine, its most astounding trick thus far has been its successful evasion of criticism from Christian media watchdog groups. Since Constantine’s release last Friday, the usual religiously conservative voices of outrage at pop-culture blasphemers have largely been silent. In recent years, movies taking similar liberties with religious content have drawn highly publicized protest: the 1999 comedy Dogma, for example, spurred the Catholic League to circulate petitions and run New York Times ads calling for a boycott of the movie. The outrage at 1973’s The Exorcist was so widespread...
Faculty members and graduate students at Yale presented Yale President Richard C. Levin with a petition and a letter, respectively, condemning him for remaining silent on the controversial remarks of Harvard’s president on women in science...
...show the public that we are not cowards, we are not spineless, and we are not with you.” Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skocpol spoke darkly of “fear and manipulation,” and warned that faculty members have kept silent “in fear that they will be criticized publicly or lose their jobs.” (Heavens! The last time a Harvard professor suffered public criticism was in 1952, during the McCarthy era, and we all know how that turned...
Lately, building the ’zine has taken a back seat to staging events like the Cube and the Dance Conspiracy, in which a silent swarm of people vacillated and jived to rhythms supplied by Harvard radio station WHRB through portable radio headphones. These events aim at making people aware of their surroundings—their “space and place” as Present! co-founder Neasa Coll ’05 puts it. “Some of the events we’ve had have happened outside or they’ve happened in places...
...left. Certain he was about to be deported, Farhad feared that if he told immigration staff about his clandestine pro-democracy activities, they might send the information back with him to Iran. "So I kept the story of my life short. I decided it was best to be silent...