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...your book you speak warmly of both Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush. Was it difficult to maintain relationships with political spouses at times when you disapproved of their husbands' actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cherie Blair | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...place that is both present and unreachable.” Pendleton says that Aljafari’s creative juxtaposition of shots of the family going about their everyday business with rapidly moving images of explosions playing behind them on the television screen is particularly memorable. The scene seems to speak to the superficial images of violence that fully constitute Palestine in the minds of many Americans. The festival’s organizers sought to counteract what they see as a one-sided portrayal of Palestinians in news media. “The Palestinian narrative is missing from the mainstream here...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Festival Displays Palestinian Films | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

Today, Alvarez will speak to the students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where her novel was on the summer reading list...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Immigrant Author Finds Home in Books | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...with the political situation. Drawing on the time he has spent there, Traub convincingly conveys the situation in Mali from a variety of perspectives, allowing the reader to see the social desires that democracy fulfills there. As one Mali citizen declares, “Now you can go and speak as you wish. Democracy has erased the fear and given free expression to everyone. So I think democracy is a good thing.” Traub attempts to highlight the illogical nature of the Bush regime’s foreign policy by using Egypt as an example of a repressive...

Author: By Marissa A. Glynias, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spread Democracy, But Not Like W. | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...maximum security prisons where those sentenced to life without possibility of parole most often serve their sentences. Such arguments raise meaningful objections to the practice of state-inflicted death. The possibility of flawed outcomes, the lack of evidence for deterrence, and the burdensome cost of death row all speak to the amoral nature of the punishment. In the case of Troy Davis, the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear this case is an understandable one, grounded in the belief that Davis received “due process by the law.” As an apolitical body...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Still Cruel, Far Too Usual | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

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