Word: utopia
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...about American policy, it's hard to find any who actually sympathize with bin Laden, a man whose dream of a world where women are kept at home, where every area of life conforms to the harshest reading of Scripture, sounds too much like Jerry Falwell's idea of Utopia. So Bennett is reduced to shadowboxing tiny opponents. He pulls quotes from the occasional dissenting Op-Ed piece, whips the tattered scarecrow of Noam Chomsky and rescues us from "the militant black activist Lorenzo Komboa Ervin." Lorenzo...
...like DJs, if you like hip hop, if you like funk, if you like rock’n’roll...then Scratch Tour 2002 is your musical dream. No, Scratch Tour 2002, which hit Boston at the Avalon Ballroom on March 19, is your sound utopia and your DJ nirvana. Avalon was equipped with a row of turn-tables running the length of the stage, a jam-packed crowd of fans, a small break-dancing circle and a big screen running everything from live feed of the DJs’ hands close up, to the bouncing crowd to unrelated...
...longer consume her. She’s no longer enraged by betrayal, and doesn not indulge quite so much in her unrelenting stream of consciousness. She cheerily muses over the track “Surrending,” and is thoughtfully contemplative on the gypsy-tinged “Utopia.” She no longer relies on the disillusionment of a leftover grunge-bittered generation. She is ready and willing to take responsibility for her actions. While in Dogma she was cast as God, in Under Rug Swept, she plays man: “I have been blamed...
DIED. ROBERT NOZICK, 63, Harvard philosopher whose first book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), invoked classical 19th century theory to argue that capitalist governments should play only a minimal role in human affairs, a position that today still defines the debate between liberals and conservatives; of stomach cancer, in Cambridge, Mass...
...foolish to look at Harvard as a utopia whose labor policies should be divorced from those of the world around it. The Living Wage Campaign calls on Harvard to be a leader, but Harvard cannot lead by paying a living wage few other institutions, public or private, have the luxury of matching. Certainly a few cities, including Cambridge, have living wage ordinances, but those generally cover only municipal employees and contractors...