As we enter the final weekend of a numbing campaign season, both sides have reasons for optimism: Bush continues to lead slightly in the national polls, while the Kerry team continues to believe that a strong voter-turnout effort will turn things in their favor. Pagan Halloween falls on a Christian ...
Columbus Day Weekend - a time of transatlantic arrivals, ethno-historical (counter)protests and Brown student exoduses to Manhattan or Boston - was bookended this year by two notable departures. On Friday, poststructuralist (I never promised not to use that term) intellectual Jacques Derrida died of ...
For most self-respecting political observers, the campaign shocker - Child out of wedlock! Drunk-driving conviction! - is usually an invitation for high-minded eye-rolling and second-order analysis. That is, we don't, or pretend not to, care whether those Swift Boat Veterans' allegations about Kerry ...
Whatever one thinks of its artistic elegance or lack thereof - and we're not exactly talking about the Svetlana Khorkina of American network television here - the WB sure has a knack for capturing the zeitgeist in the form of perfectly haircutted and acne-zapped white teenagers. What, after all, was ...
Hot on the heels of the recent American and European rover landings on Mars, President George W. Bush's subsequent plans for a future manned Martian-Lunar mission and its own launch of a man into space last year, China announced on April 18 that it had become only the fourth country to put a "micro-satellite" ...
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