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...Afghan war had broad public support in Canada in 2002, but is now seen as one front in George W. Bush's hugely unpopular "war on terror." The discontent also has deeper roots. Since World War II, when Canada sent more than a million troops to fight (and lost 45,000 lives), the country has stuck mainly to U.N. peacekeeping missions--a practice invented (as Canadians are fond of reminding visitors) in 1956 by Canadian Foreign Minister Lester Pearson. Having taken few casualties in the past half-century, Canadians have found it jarring to watch flag-draped coffins return...
...says. SO WHATBut, as Everett notes, the status of jazz at Harvard echoes the dynamics of the broader jazz culture. Although jazz is not quite cult music, it is also not the music of the masses. Everett paraphrases a saxophonist who describes jazz as “an unpopular form of popular music.” Besides reflecting the situation of the jazz world outside Harvard, the relative smallness of the student jazz culture has allowed a few dedicated undergraduates to form intimate connections with some of the most prominent figures in that world. Perhaps no student?...
...It’s kind of a twist from the standard castaway plot.RR: What’s your character’s native culture like?US: It parallels modern society more than you might think. It’s the middle of election season, there’s an unpopular war going on, and it’s very capitalist, consumer-driven. So when people think they’re getting away from it all, they find out that they’re really not.RR: If you were going to be trapped on a desert island, who would you want...
...silly hats; his physical disabilities limit his capacity to engage in bowling photo ops. His shtick is substance, the endless access granted to reporters on his bus. The problem for McCain, and the opportunity for Democrats, is that his positions are either unpopular or sketchy. The problem for Democrats is that McCain has the potential to steal, or take the edge off, some of their favorite issues by offering more moderate-seeming, if sometimes totally inadequate, answers...
...annual spending, with the aim of balancing the French budget by 2012. That will provoke considerable pain and resistance from the public, and doubtless more slides in polls. That, in short, is Sarkozy's dilemma: to be an effective, decisive leader, he'll also have to be a very unpopular...