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...there’s no clear slant towards either the left or the right. Team America is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good guy and everyone who goes against them are either evil or woefully misinformed. While, to many, such a theme may seem ironic, what makes this movie so pertinent and vital is the fact that this unthinking good-vs.-evil mentality may be more widespread than we’d like to believe. On the other hand, this movie also tells me that beating the hell out of puppets...
...most devoted members indulge freely—in two weeks time, Ahn herself has had a quadruple helping. But the allegiance does not stop there. In addition to boughs of holly and a real Christmas tree, Ahn and her roommates decided to use Love Actually as a decorative theme. Any passerby will see their door draped with a red ribbon—“like the cover of the DVD,” Ahn explains—as well as a quote from the movie...
...nickname “the Kremlin on the Charles” and came under fire from Sen. Joseph McCarthy for the faculty’s alleged communist leanings. But the campus’ liberal sensibility reared its fur-hatted head again last year, when Mather House adopted a Soviet theme and wrapped itself in an iron curtain in the campus-wide House Wars...
Maats says Mather chose the Soviet theme in part because of a note left behind by the gong’s thieves, saying the gong had been sent to the Danilov Monastery in Russia in recompense for the Lowell House bells. The theme also fit well with Mather’s existing House colors, red and yellow. And Maats says the House’s notable architecture also lent itself to the Soviet comparison. “Conan O’Brien [’86] said the same person who designed Hitler’s bunker designed Mather...
...common theme of this campaign season has been one of change. People want to see a change in the way they are able to express their opinions, a change in the way they are represented and a change in the way the Undergraduate Council serves them. Our candidacy brings to you this promise of change in an informed...