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...right. Team America is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good guy and everyone who goes against them are either evil or woefully misinformed. While, to many, such a theme may seem ironic, what makes this movie so pertinent and vital is the fact that this unthinking good-vs.-evil mentality may be more widespread than we’d like to believe. On the other hand, this movie also tells me that beating the hell out of puppets is funny...
...they choose to spend them this way?to build great armies and seek regional political power. For 50 years, the U.S. has been the essential balance wheel in Asia, helping its friends, keeping power distributed?as Asians might say?harmoniously. In the future, that task will be even more vital than it has been in the past. The choice of a U.S. President, even a re-elected one, sends ripples around the world that beget new ripples everywhere they strike. Asians will be watching to see if the second Bush Administration understands what power?sometimes unintentional...
...America, it is vital that every vote count and that every vote be counted,” Kerry said, alluding to ballots still waiting to be tallied in several states. “But the outcome should be decided by voters, not a protracted legal process. I would not give up this fight if there was a chance that we would prevail...
Final clubs also provide a vital alternative to Harvard’s social life—which is dismal compared to other colleges, say both pro- and anti-final club students, including John S. Kwaak ’05, president...
...groups or had entered Iraq after the invasion in March 2003 to engage in terror or aid the insurgency. But defining fighters as unlawful combatants is a slippery slope to descend. And for the sake of America’s standing—the strengthening of which is a vital component in the war on terror itself—and for the sake of America’s soldiers—who may someday be declared unlawful combatants themselves—the Bush administration should stop bending the Geneva Conventions to suit its own ends...