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...enjoy the same amount of advertising that Hollywood movies do. France is no less a bazaar of arts, music and literature than is any other country. French culture isn't in decline. France's population has only become more ethnically diverse, which wasn't expected. If France isn't understood today, it will be tomorrow - it will always be a part of the world's culture. Anissa Desuzinge, LA GARDE, FRANCE...
...HUAM’s educational resources is motivated by the museums’ goals to make their collections more known and comprehensible to the public. “Even with the environment of the University with a lot of bright and educated people, art museums are not fully understood by everybody,” said Lentz. “Ultimately our goal is to make the collections more accessible and put them to use for students, faculty and the community we serve.” Lentz said that works of art can be powerful educational tools, and he is confident...
Perhaps more disturbing is the recent revelation that members of Congress, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), voiced no objections to these techniques, including waterboarding, in a secret briefing with CIA officials in September 2002. The complicity of both Democrats and Republicans can be understood best by viewing the CIA as a fearful, incompetent bureaucracy...
...socialism is a complicated affair, but one with which—today—progressives must stand in critical solidarity. This requires two things.First, we must doggedly document and resist the arrogant propagandizing that scars this country’s mainstream intellectual currents. Partly, this position needs to be understood as a rejection of the priorities of American Empire: When a resource-rich client economy jumps from the neoliberal bandwagon, as Venezuela under Chavez has done, it should be unsurprising that it becomes a cause for bipartisan concern. This past July, for example, Obama found himself in hot water...
...breaks." But as Edwards took it on the road-into living rooms and union halls and diners and high school gyms-it grew and evolved into something much, much bigger, into a cause. "The more I talked about it, the more it became internal," Edwards says. "I understood pretty quickly after that, this is who I am. This is what I believe. It is my own life story, and I could connect it to parts of my own life-to some of the inequality that I had seen, racial and economic inequality, what I'd seen in some...