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Last night’s session was the third in a series sponsored by the Humanities Center. The sessions are intended to provoke dialogue on issues of “vital importance on literary culture studies and theory,” said the Center’s director, Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber...
...more than 400--taxed him heavily during national crises. This is familiar ground, but Revealed also makes good use of recently declassified tapes--J.F.K. talking with advisers during the Cuban missile crisis, with the Governor of Mississippi during the James Meredith uproar--to show a President who was vital, decisive and often vulgar. But it plays the audio over goofy re-enactment scenes using a look-alike, as if viewers are too dim to imagine one of history's most famous leaders talking on a telephone...
...Yankees, it risks losing its heady new role as Third World standard bearer. "We are not trying to gang up on the United States," Amorim told Time. Instead, he insists, the U.S. has made "an attempt to corner Brazil." America isn't about to budge on politically vital issues like agriculture subsidies. It hopes to make Brazil back down by painting its defiant stance as reckless international populism. That may be the only way left to salvage the ftaa, a pact the U.S. has long coveted as a guarantee against Latin America (today the U.S.'s second-largest export market...
...vital part of those means is the album’s flawless production, courtesy of the DFA. Quite simply, the increasingly popular NYC duo give Echoes what Paul Oakenfold gave the Happy Mondays on Pills, Thrills, and Bellyaches and what the Dust Brothers gave the Beastie Boys on Paul’s Boutique. The DFA’s production brings the Rapture’s early sound, evocative of Joy Division and the Cure, to its logical fulfillment—bridging the band’s penchant for the 80s with the means and trends of 21st century rock...
...announcement that House gyms will each receive up to $20,000 from the College seems impressive, but really changes nothing. No one wants to work out in cramped, dusty rooms in basements (where House gyms will still be located), however good the equipment there is. It is vital to recognize—as, to be fair, the administrators who made the announcement did—that this is a stopgap measure at best, and Harvard needs an impressive central recreational athletic facility. Logic and geography dictate that that place should...