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...originality, and leggings a glorious flattering invention (I know you may find this hard to believe; I do too, because I looked like Jean Paul Sartre in my leggings). 2007 boasts universally unbecoming trends such as huge puff sleeves, mid-calf length skirts, mod-shift dresses and, horror upon horror, cigarette pants.Sometimes, while daydreaming in a particularly horrible lecture about the life of Wordsworth, for example, I fantasize about what designers were thinking when they designed this year’s collections. Did they all think that huge sleeves look good on all women? Did they? It is with this...
...while.”Four nights later—five days after I started—I finally got home on the night of Dec. 24. I celebrated Christmas with my family, and an absolutely wonderful friend in Berkeley hosted me for those four nights. Sure, I spent hours upon hours upon hours in airports, waited an entire day for a standby flight that never materialized, saw grown men break down and cry, and people be treated like animals by airport staffers. But a few things came out of the experience. I realized that my friends are there...
...lines will be eradicated by wishful thinking, or even by the election of a black president—which according to a recent Newsweek poll, only 56 percent of registered voters think is possible. In the end, the responsibility to equalize race in America, however difficult or humbling, lies upon...
...month: 3,000 or more killed or disappeared, “thousands” tortured. Meanwhile, Pinochet supporters offered counterfactuals that claimed many more would have died had Chile continued its “road to socialism.” They told of a government that was collapsing in upon itself without any help from the outside. They referenced the relatively low number killed in Chile versus other countries that suffered similar violations. They said “some repression” could be justified to ensure order in a country facing so many internal and external threats...
...question of whether some human rights can be encroached upon in the interest of national (or global) security is one without an easy answer and it is a question that should and will be debated. Perhaps some human rights will be suspended in tumultuous times. But if you choose to argue that the trauma Chile faced during Pinochet’s reign necessitated “some” repression, do so with a full understanding of what you are defending...