By Boris Ryvkin on February 1, 2007
Something to consider when assessing the Communist experience is whether thievery exists in gradations. We generally identify thieves as petty, common criminals, seeking material wealth and a quick improvement in their social lot. Modern society has seen the term “robber baron” enter its lexicon, where a corporate executive and his majority shareholders manipulate international markets [...]
Posted in International | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Jason Carr on February 1, 2007
The Darfur tragedy has gutted the Washingtonian isolationist imperative. The allowance of genocide by states with the means to prevent it has become tantamount to complicity in that heinous act – for good reason. As national indignation grows over the Darfur insult, Brown’s Darfur Action Network finds itself a part of a wave that has [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By The Brown Spectator on February 1, 2007
For undermining the surge and the larger American effort to secure democracy in Iraq. In politicizing the war, the Democratic Congress, alongside a growing number of cowardly Republicans, has sent an unmistakable message of defeatism. As Defense Secretary Gates’s put it, a Congressional resolution against the troop surge simply “emboldens the enemy” and lends credence [...]
Posted in Loser | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Roxanne Palmer on February 1, 2007
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of communism, I fear no Evil Empire. Thy wiretaps and thy secret prisons, they comfort me…"
The description "spy movie" traditionally indicates several key elements of cinema: large explosions, exotic women in bikinis, and bad puns following the deaths of anonymous henchmen. Robert DeNiro's "The Good [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Pratik Chougule on February 1, 2007
In the November/December issue of the Brown Alumni Magazine, Lawrence Goodman in “Party Animals” attempted to dissect campus politics at Brown through a profile of Zachary Drew, President, and myself, Vice President, of the College Republicans as well as Tor Tarantola, President, and Craig Auster, Vice President of the College Democrats, respectively. In his balanced [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Drew Edwards on February 1, 2007
On September 12th, 2006, Harvard College announced that its early admission program would be coming to an end. Shortly thereafter, Princeton’s trustees (who happened to be meeting that weekend) decided to follow suit. As they describe (see http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/web_exclusives/plus/plus_101106rapelye. html), they assumed that following in Harvard’s footsteps immediately would make them appear on the top of [...]
Posted in National | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Boris Ryvkin on February 1, 2007
The State of Israel is in an incredibly tenuous position. The debate surrounding Israel’s interests has shifted more in the last decade than perhaps at any other time in its history, with horrific consequences. A breakdown in Israeli leadership has gone hand in hand with a mismanagement of the military and a compromise on [...]
Posted in International | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Kristina Kelleher on February 1, 2007
Mary Beth Reynolds, Catholic campus Minister at Brown since 1999, left October 29 to accept a position as spiritual care coordinator for Home and Hospice Center of Rhode Island. In a Brown-RISD Catholic community wide e-mail on October 13, she wrote in part:
After more than seven years of Sunday bagels and class suppers, weekly Cenacles, [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Sean Quigley on February 1, 2007
A Book Review of Manliness, by Harvey Mansfield
Yale University Press, 304 pp. Twenty-Seven Dollars, Fifty Cents.
I believe that politically incorrect is the best way to describe Professor Harvey C. Mansfield of Harvard University. And he’s damn proud to be. You know, in a boastful sort of way. A manly sort of way. [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Sheila Dugan on February 1, 2007
Nick Saban, former coach of the Miami Dolphins, recently received a $4 million a year contract, plus bonuses for bowl games, from the University of Alabama. In October, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) signed a $6 billion, eleven-year contract with CBS to broadcast the NCAA basketball tournament. The deal includes rights to [...]
Posted in National | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
