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...African-American man in the presidency, let us not remember Sarah Palin as the folksy “woman candidate,” but rather as a maverickly mistake. After all, women are relatively new to presidential campaigns and thus are still looking for the right tone to strike??a way, perhaps, to transcend their gender identity without abandoning it. Palin’s overtly feminine, and ultimately disastrous, attempt may have served only to distract this progress and to reinforce the regrettable sexism of our society. All we may hope is that Palin’s candidacy...
...Chicago two months later, provoking helmeted police into a brutal assault. At Harvard the following spring, in 1969, students took over University Hall to protest the institution’s alleged complicity in the Vietnam War, once again provoking a police incursion, followed by a student “strike?? that shut down the university...
...times in two years to work on my master’s project in journalism. My last trip, in April 2008, finally brought me to the story I had been chasing: the biggest civil uprising against Egypt’s military government in three decades. Taking photos in the strike??s epicenter, the industrial city of Mahalla, I was kidnapped by the police on Apr. 10. My translator, trying to help me get away, was nabbed as well...
...Californication,” shouldn’t be likeable. He shouldn’t be relatable. And he certainly shouldn’t be the main character of a recently renewed series that—in spite of the writer’s strike??—will soon start its sophomore season. While cable television has certainly been home to a host of dysfunctional, even inhuman protagonists, most live life atop unusual and generally unsavory backdrops—notably, morgues, maximum-security prisons, and New Jersey.Like its big-sister show “Weeds...
...this is what the comedy industry did during the Writers’ Strike??do readings on book tours...