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...Glory will be stenciled on every second snowdrift in Utah. Meanwhile, corporate America and Madison Avenue have found a new theme: Sept. 11 sells! Hence the ads that drip mawkishness like a melting candle (those Budweiser Clydesdales bowing before lower Manhattan) or, like the astonishingly crass Kenneth Cole glossy, somehow link the tragedy to soulful sex ("On September 12, fewer men spent the night on the couch...
...months ago, the country put an extraordinary amount of hope in the belief that this quirky, outspoken and handsome politician could somehow save Japan. Koizumi's popularity was unprecedented, his approval ratings consistently hovering at about 80%. If anyone had a mandate to take on the nexus of vested interests and intransigent politicians who had derailed reform throughout the '90s, it was he. But he almost immediately went off track, agreeing to supplementary budgets, endorsing costly bailouts and waffling on banking reform. Then, last month, he dumped his Foreign Minister, Makiko Tanaka, whose bellicose banter and tough stand against prickly...
...program are trying to defend themselves...they want to put up a front.” Record labels sell us danger because danger, ironically, makes us feel safe. Ultimately, behind all of the diverse emotional responses good music can evoke, Doughty contends that we like what we like because, somehow, it makes us feel good...
...people who assumed that this problem was something that was generated by West. They assumed that this was something Cornel West blew out of proportion. They assumed that Cornel West had made this a problem. They assumed that Summers had a legitimate grudge because they assumed Cornel West was somehow not of the caliber of someone like, say, Harvey Mansfield, or some other heavily-endowed professors at Harvard. And it seems to me that we need to resist that, and that it is there...
...voices he’s hearing, he’s also hearing voices that are saying, “Great job. Go get him.” And those people think that they own the place. That’s a huge problem, and I think the assumption that somehow West’s scholarship may not be up to the level it is, is an assumption, especially when we haven’t even read it. Think of Lani Gunier. When she was supposed to be the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Bill Clinton and those that sunk...