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...rebel peasants' march in Gillo Pontecorvo's Queimada (Burn!) or the several stirring anthems he wrote for Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900. These are pieces that, as Morricone proved when he played them at a concert this month at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, can stand and soar on their...
This is hardly a Dean-like stand. But then, there may not be many Dean-like stands to be had this year. Obama readily admits in his stump speech that the Democratic candidates are emphasizing the same issues this time. "Each of us is going to have a health plan," he says, sounding slightly bored. So what does the Senator have to sell? At the Democratic National Committee meeting in Washington a few weeks ago, he said his campaign was going to be more about "hope" than "specifics." Hope? For a generation, Democrats have been told to "keep hope alive...
...Powell. In 1972, Powell joined the court's majority in denying journalists an exemption from testifying before a grand jury. But in a separate opinion, he offered an alternative--a test balancing press freedom against the obligation to testify--that many courts used to keep reporters off the witness stand. The opinion no doubt encouraged sources to speak and so allowed us all to become better informed...
...ultimately plausible the film is, the messages it conveys are all the more compelling and poignant. The film’s depiction of the use of political violence rather than more peaceful methods rings particularly true in the world of 2007—a world that could stand to take time to watch this cautionary tale. —Staff writer Victoria B. Kabak can be reached at vkabak@fas.harvard.edu...
...have children and a girlfriend and an ex-wife and a mother, so I have hall monitors all around me all the time. I’m not doing anything too dangerous.” Saget’s college-friendly image has included multiple university stand-up tours. In 2001, B.J. Novak ’01, of NBC’s “The Office,” and B.J. Averell ’02, the winner of last year’s “Amazing Race,” on CBS, hosted a show in Sanders...