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...account of those hellish years?1.5 million people murdered, starved or worked to death?is familiar yet shocking. Almost as shocking is the sheer incompetence of Pol Pot's rule. He had barely come to power before initiating the policies that helped him lose it: the evacuation of urban centers, which caused mass rural starvation, and the extermination of the skilled and the educated. In 1978, dimly sensing his reign of terror was collapsing, he issued a belated directive for cadres to ease up on summary executions, yet simultaneously launched a bloody purge of suspected Vietnam sympathizers. And so, with...
...while the electoral college delivered disaster last time around, its anachronistic structure, coupled with the oft-ignored reality of residential segregation, mean that urban black voters are particularly situated to swing the election to Kerry. Blacks make up a huge percentage of the central cities in the major swing states for the election: Milwaukee, Wis.; Detroit, Mich.; St. Louis and Kansas City, Miss.; and most importantly, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pa. and Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio. If Kerry wins every state that Gore won in 2000 (and he is leading in polls in each) plus Ohio or Florida?...
...Darlene are a young and idealistic pair who find themselves in the proverbial den of thieves—an assortion of thieves, shady characters, and miscreants assembled in an all-night New York City coffee shop. Follow their story as the couple faces temptation and danger in their urban predicament. Presented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, world-renowned Visiting Director Scott Zigler guides the production. Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $8 (groups of 10 or more $7 apiece). Through Oct. 30. Loeb Main Stage, 64 Brattle Street...
...McCrea debuted “No Phone,” the second track off the new disc, to an audience filled with adoration for his trademark mordant social rants. “No Phone,” along with various other tracks off the new album, denounce technology and urban culture with a blander-than-usual strain of Cake’s signature social criticism. The tracks make use of the cultural consciousness that Cake fans crave, and that McCrea obviously still has, although their delivery on the CD pales in comparison to the caustic tunes of Cake?...
Both Campaigns offer official gear on their campaign websites. For the Northeastern urban hipster contingent, the John Kerry Online Store offers an array of vintage gear. In addition, they sell a variety of dog tags including a Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Rainbow Kerry-Edwards Dog Tag. For those who want to wallow in past democratic defeats, the online store also sells historic campaign buttons, including Gore-Lieberman, Mondale, and Stevenson for President. For those nostalgic Democrats, Hidden Sweets also sells a t-shirt that reads “Carter in ’80: ‘He?...