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Stories by the Brothers Grimm are not as kid-friendly as children’s books perhaps ought to be to the modern eye. Mutilation, murder, cannibalism, and cruelty mark the tales, making for somewhat scarring bedtime stories. 1. The Juniper Tree – A boy, salted with his sister’s tears, is served to his father for supper. Brought back to life as a bird by tears of blood, the boy kills his step-mother, who had decapitated him with the heavy lid of a chest, and everyone lives happily ever after. Hooray! 2. Little...
...club rhymes for independent label Fool’s Gold. For the video, fellow Chi-town native Kanye West provides a verse and cameo appearance, neither of which lend much to the video. The Louis Vuitton Don provides some of his least spectacular lyrics thus far and a somewhat irrelevant presence. Also, watching Kanye utter the words, “Did you see the way she got her toes did?” is mildly disconcerting. Moreover, the video does a bad job of conveying Kid Sister’s message—namely, that she?...
...Teaching a Diplomat Diplomacy I was shocked and somewhat antagonized by John Bolton's answers to some of the questions readers asked [Nov. 26]. In particular, I was alarmed by his lack of support for diplomacy in delicate situations like dealing with Iran. He also revealed arrogance and pomposity when referring to the U.N. as "a useful instrument of American foreign policy." Bolton must be blind and deaf if he thinks that anti-Americanism isn't sweeping the world. If he wants to see real change in the way America is viewed and practical solutions to global tension, he should...
...step with a majority of voters on such secondary issues as outlawing abortion and narrowing stem-cell research, Republicans have more recently managed to get themselves on the wrong side of popular trends on what were once old reliables: foreign policy, economics, energy, even health care. Iraq is still somewhat taboo in Republican debates, so fearful are the candidates that the situation in Baghdad might again deteriorate. Thanks to Katrina and several war-contracting scandals, the party has squandered its bragging rights on running a more efficient government. "We've lost, clearly, some of the moral high ground...
...first working day of every month, a test of the city's air raid sirens would start up and I'd wonder what it must have felt like to hear them whine on Dec. 7, 1941. As a Japanese American, though, my feelings about the attack were always somewhat conflicted...