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...shops and water coolers, Powell's performance won high marks. To be sure, there are plenty of Americans like Vicki Pollyea, an Air Force colonel's daughter in Tampa, Fla., who feel "we're jumping into something extremely dangerous without world support, and it has a real feeling of Vietnam." But in the TIME/CNN poll, 17% said Powell had changed their mind. Before his speech, they opposed sending troops to Iraq; now they favored it. "It scared me," said Abby Headrick, 20, a University of Georgia junior, of the speech. "I had no idea Saddam had so much access...
...Ramones is like a sexless tribute to James Brown, yet half the thrill of the new all-star Ramones tribute, We're a Happy Family, comes from hearing irony-impaired acts swing and miss at their heroes' greatest hits. James Hetfield bellows "I was a Green Beret in Vietnam" on Metallica's version of 53rd & 3rd as if he were auditioning for Oliver Stone, while Marilyn Manson, who once seemed a suitable heir to the Ramones (or at least Alice Cooper) turns The KKK Took My Baby Away into a bland bit of Goth melodrama. The Ramones' songbook demands energy...
Harvard students are an angry bunch. The Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ) protests President George W. Bush’s imperialism with an indignation reminiscent of hippy-filled Vietnam-era demonstrations. The Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) cannot tell us enough about the global AIDS crisis, or how evil companies like Coca-Cola are not providing comprehensive health coverage to their African employees. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) blasts Harvard for not paying its janitors a “living wage,” despite concessions from the administration...
...QUIET AMERICAN. Michael Caine is garnering some of the best reviews of his career for his role as a hardened journalist in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. The film, set in 1950s Vietnam, pits Caine against Brendan Fraser’s undercover American spy as Fraser vies for the affections of Caine’s Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen). Fraser’s intervention in the romance is intended to parallel the film’s other plot—a commentary on the early American efforts to eradicate communism in Vietnam. Christopher Hampton...
...love my country and much of my work is about the struggle to realize the ideas of equality set out in the Declaration of Independence and the post-Civil War amendments to our Constitution. But nothing since President Nixon’s sudden expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia, which led to the destruction of another society, has made me so ashamed of our national leaders as the war we are about to start in Iraq. I am ashamed of the act of starting a war against a country that has neither attacked nor immediately threatened...