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...awed by Eisenhower’s candidness: “Eisenhower told the American public the truth.” The youngest filmmaker ever to present a film at the Sundance Film Festival, Jarecki attended Princeton University but found the drama program lacking. However, the absence of a solid drama program spurred Jarecki’s entrepreneurial spirit toward filmmaking. After working in political advertising and visiting Guantanamo Bay during the detainment of Haitian prisoners, he says he decided to try his hand at making politically focused documentaries. Jarecki’s uniquely balanced approach to covering Capitol Hill-related...
Randall Morck, visiting professor of Canadian studies at Harvard, said Ignatieff will be “a breath of fresh air” to the Liberal Party, which has a solid shot of obtaining a majority in the next election...
...Terriers’ Gina Sabatino and Monica Shepherd, and junior Preethi Mukundan and freshman Laura Peterzan rolled over BU’s Erin Katims and Yana Sadovskaya in the No. 3 position by a score of 8-2 to complete the sweep. “Everybody just had a solid day, and we were a lot more solid than the other team,” O’Riain said. Harvard allowed very few points across the board in singles play, with three out of six players shutting out their opponents in the second sets of their matches. Both Wang...
...attendees come from a town called Tuxpan in the green hills of the central-Mexican state of Michoacn, which has seen several generations of young workers move to this far, affluent corner of the U.S. They came with nothing, and many have managed to build a solid facsimile of middle-class American life. Still, most of them are--in the hard parlance of the immigration debate--illegal aliens, part of an emerging presence that was once seen as a blessing but has turned into one of the Hamptons' biggest controversies...
...Almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world." A lovely sentiment, a beautiful line, a potentially disastrous policy. It is common wisdom among serious democracy advocates that there are preconditions for successful representative government. There must be a solid middle class; there must be the rule of law and freedom of speech. But a more elusive human quality is necessary as well: a drastic change of public sensibility from passivity toward active engagement. In a place like Iraq-or the former Soviet Union-passivity was a survival mechanism. The best way to live with a tyrant...