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...American Idiot,” which was also nominated and snubbed, “Vertigo” becomes indistinguishable from “Beautiful Day” or any other anthemic Bono bonanza. But they’re U2. It’s this specter of the establishment, creeping into criticism, that makes me so dubious and ultimately diffident about where these awards...
None of this is to say that the United States, Britain or any country should not take definite steps to protect itself from the specter of terror. But, as has been argued so frequently since the attacks on America of September 11, 2001, casting aside the very values, protections and rights that make America “great” in the name of national security ultimately causes two deleterious effects. First, it costs the U.S. credibility in a world where international opinion is already largely against U.S. policy and where, with the House of Lords rulings, there...
...proceed on schedule. For the Bush administration, postponement is too great a concession to the insurgency it has struggled to contain in Iraq, let alone defeat. Delay also opens a legal and political minefield - the current interim government has no mandate beyond the January 30 election - and raises the specter of a long-term open-ended U.S. troop commitment. For the Shiites, the election represents a long-awaited opportunity to peacefully assume power proportionate to their demographic majority, and they'll brook no delay at the behest of the Sunni minority they plan to displace in the corridors of power...
Although all of the remaining seven guards were promised jobs with the contractor, not a single one of them took the University up on its offer. Thus, the specter of outsourcing had emerged for the first time since 2001, when the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) protested the practice in a series of rallies tied to their Living Wage Campaign. Back then, labor-related buzzwords like “outsourcing” and “parity” were on everyone’s lips, thanks to the vocal, sometimes antagonizing tactics of PSLM...
...ghosts of the Scottish play, however, are ones that visit all theaters. Here on the Harvard campus, there is a second specter which appears to the theater community from time to time, and which has recently been sighted once again: the apparition of a Theater Concentration...