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...only the beginning. If McCain-Feingold passes, it's on to the House, where Shays-Meehan, McCain-Feingold's long-standing shadow in the lower chamber, has passed by comfortable margins for years. But with Bush deferring the villain's role to Congress, if the reliable Senate backstop falls, DeLay is vowing to step into the Mitch McConnell role and do whatever it takes to stop the House from meeting McCain halfway. Shame, after years of high-pitched support, may keep Senate Democrats in line, but the wider (and more anonymous) bipartisan coalition that backs the ban in the House...
Sometimes a villain can be attractive. The mail carrier in Postman reads the letters he is to deliver: the whispers of love, lust, fear in a closed society; loneliness begging for another voice to answer, in harmony or dissonance. The voice is the postman's, once he takes the next step and writes responses as if he were the people who hadn't answered these pleas for a little human contact. The director touches the viewer as well. He has a sense of the winsomeness of voyeuristic obsession, and the small, spare elegances of camera placement, almost worthy...
...Hero or villain? Who knows...
Simatovic is not a hero in Belgrade, nor is he the villain that he is in the eyes of many Bosnians and Kosovo Albanians. The appointments of Lukic and others were greeted with a yawn. Even figures who have become synonymous with evil in the West have yet to fall from grace in long-isolated Serbia. Not long ago, 500 Belgraders turned out on a midwinter morning to honor the memory of Zeljko (Arkan) Raznjatovic, the notorious paramilitary gangster who was gunned down in a hotel lobby a year ago. Dressed in rich furs and long black overcoats, the mourners...
...residents of Cambridge and other communities become increasingly unhappy with the University's actions, it would behoove Harvard to give Watertown a generous PILOT. We do not begrudge the University its space, but it is not in the University's interest to appear as a community villain rather than benefactor--especially after having recently purchased land in Allston. With Cambridge city counselors calling for increased payments from Harvard and MIT, the University must demonstrate that it is truly committed to a socially responsible position in local affairs. Harvard can afford the loss of a couple million dollars a year...