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(08/10/06 9:00am)
Just recently, the Israeli cabinet voted to expand the ground war in southern Lebanon in its continued effort to uproot Hezbollah's terror infrastructure, which has been assailing the Israeli civilian population. As the casualties on both sides continue to mount, various world leaders have been struggling to get the two sides to agree on some sort of ceasefire agreement. They should save their breath. The Israeli-Lebanese-Hezbollah conflict is well beyond the point where calling off hostilities is a possibility. This conflict is but a proxy for a larger and for more bitter rift between Israel and its Arab neighbors that can be traced as far back as 1948 -- if not further.
(06/29/06 9:00am)
It is easy to fall into the trap of treating sophomore summer -- a Dartmouth tradition since the mid-1970s -- as something of a less-than-equal cousin of the Fall, Winter and Spring sessions. In all honesty, who could blame you? The weather is beautiful, the campus is at its most stunning and there is a plethora of outdoor activities to take part in, from soccer to softball, the river to the ledges. For the members of Dartmouth's various Greek houses -- especially those who live therein -- the temptation to slough off work and rage seven nights a week is a powerful one indeed.
(05/24/06 9:00am)
Summer is just around the corner, and, for once, I have nothing to complain about. There I said it -- nothing at all. The explanation for these feelings of pure, undiluted elation is simple -- summer movies. When you boil me down, I'm really, at heart, a sucker for big-budget blockbusters, and the bottom line is, there is no better time for these films of mass popcorn consumption than the good ol' months of summer.
(05/11/06 9:00am)
American television has reached a new low. In fact, I cannot see how the programming could really get any worse. Between America's celebrity obsession and the disease of reality television, it is virtually impossible to turn on a TV without being bombarded by this mind-numbing garbage. Since its inception, critics have complained that TV makes people lazy, intellectually stagnant and just plain dumb. Although I'm wary to throw myself in with this lot, I think this time they might be right.
(03/02/06 11:00am)
There is a recent and disturbing trend in American cinema in which the directors of classic films feel the apparently insuppressible need to revisit and re-edit their most beloved and heralded works in a misguided attempt to "update" them for a newer audience. The principle perpetrators in this movement are George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. They have an uncanny propensity for "bestowing" upon the American public a bevy of re-edited, re-issued, reduxed -- call them what you will -- versions of their movies.
(11/22/05 11:00am)
Several weeks ago, when Iran's new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared in a speech that "Israel must be wiped of the map," the world reeled in shock as if it expected more from the leader of a "civilized" government. However, despite the outcry, Ahmadinejad's words are really nothing to cough about. Frankly, they are old news. Arab leaders have been posturing and blustering for half a century about how they are going to drive the Jews into the sea (see Gamel Abdul Nasser) and, at least by my watch, all three major attempts have ended in ridiculous embarrassment for them.