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...current Republican states had either not yet reached statehood or were Confederate. The book’s argument is interesting, but ultimately a little too neat. If you’re looking for an understanding of contemporary political conflicts, Richardson can give it to you in just one word: Reconstruction. In the years following the Civil War, the Northern Republicans, which in new-millennium speak means Democrats, believed the best way to reforge the nation was by “favoring” what Richardson calls special interest groups—you know, the workers, women, and newly freed slaves...
...emblematized the ambiguity of vocalizing experiences seen as stigmatizing.The launch of “Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Harvard” drew 75 students to Kirkland’s Junior Common Room last night. Undegraduates munched on cheese and crackers as members of the Spoken Word Society performed accounts published in the magazine, which features poems, first-hand accounts, and other documents which fall outside the normal boundaries of genre.With the first issue of what is hoped to be a yearly publication, the magazine staff aim to personalize normally clinical accounts of sexual assault...
...office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith last spring, privately advised against the motu proprio, the Vatican official said. Still, Benedict does not appear swayed. The professor Pope may be happy to have a conversation on doctrine, but he knows he always has the last word...
...room, nothing is off-limits: without airing the joke that goes too far, you can never get to the joke that flies in front of an audience. Trouble might come if material meant for that smaller audience went public, as in 1993, when Ted Danson got in trouble after word got out of a Friars Club routine he did in blackface, though his jokes were defended - and reportedly written by - his then girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg...
...this, playing a constant game of "Can you top this?" with herself, as in March, when she told the Conservative Political Action Conference that she would have a comment on Senator John Edwards, "but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word faggot." Coulter is only the most egregious example - from Bill O'Reilly on Fox to Glenn Beck on CNN, offense is the coin of the cable realm...