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...with his plan, as it left little incentive for Latin American workers to stay in their home countries. He underlined the need for harsher sanctions for businesses employing illegal immigrants. Cisneros concluded the evening with examples of the progress Latinos have made in the past decade, citing figures from singer Gloria Estefan to Red Sox hitter David Ortiz as people who represent a “picture of increasing influence in this nation.” Yomaris Nunez, a member of the Latino Caucus at the Kennedy School, applauded the event. “It?...
...pretensions to art or science. However, like both art and science, it nobly attempts to make sense of a largely unintelligible world, and succeeds in creating an astonishingly full-body experience from which it is nearly impossible not to learn. —Staff writer Jeremy S. Singer-Vine can be reached at jsvine@fas.harvard.edu...
There's a telling moment in Michael Moore's film Bowling for Columbine, in which singer Marilyn Manson dismisses the idea that listening to his lyrics contributed to the disintegration of Harris and Klebold. What the Columbine killers needed, Manson suggests, was for someone to listen to them. This is the narcissist's view of narcissism: everything would be fine if only he received more attention. The real problem can be found in the killer's mirror...
...RECENT YEARS SHE SHONE brightly as a National Medal of Arts honoree and elegant, tireless philanthropist. But the long career of effervescent singer-actress Kitty Carlisle Hart spanned media from film (the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera, Woody Allen's Radio Days) to stage (On Your Toes) to opera (Die Fledermaus, her 1966 debut at the Met). Hart, whose husband was playwright Moss Hart, was best known for her 1956-67 stint as a lively celebrity panelist on TV's To Tell the Truth...
...band that lacks confidence, and the chief difference between their first two records is that this one is even louder and faster. D Is for Dangerous and Fluorescent Adolescent swagger by on ferocious guitar swells, but they also swing, with unpredictable pace shifts perfect for dancing and allowing singer Alex Turner to show off his wit. "Do the bad thing/ Take off your wedding ring," he snarls, reminding you that in rock the bad thing can still feel pretty damned good...