I looked on my hall's Super Bowl obsession this past week with bemused superiority. I thought I was above wasting my life following such trivial events-that is, until I checked Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars, my favorite liberal blogs for the third time that day.
On Monday Jan. 29, I was hijacked. I stepped into the Senate office building ready to lobby my senator, Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), about ending the Iraq War as part of the nationwide lobbying day organized by the United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of political groups committed to ending the war.
Hearing Alan Dershowitz compare the governments of Iran and Nazi Germany and advocate for regime change in Iran made me fear the ever-growing specter of propaganda and terror that has enveloped the situation in Iran.
Listening to the famous and controversial historian Howard Zinn talk about Vietnam War-era civil disobedience last Thursday, I started to reflect on the relative lack of anti-war activism among members of our generation.
Traveling from South Africa to Israel during vacation makes for interesting reflection, particularly in light of recent debates over what constitutes apartheid.
The Student Union's recent change to its bylaws outlawing discrimination based on political affiliation or ideology may seem like the latest innocuous change to a set that already includes sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, graduating class, age, nationality and physical ability.
While some colleges have forcefully increased student volunteering through graduation prerequisites and mandates, Brandeis has never had such dramatic requirements-it has not had to.
Imagine jumping up and down, as sweet sonic waves blast your ears and bodies meld and fuse together.
BOSTON-Leave it to a 30-year-old band to innovate with style. The classic metal act Iron Maiden showed off its incredible versatility and prowess with a performance Friday that fractured the opinions of its fan base, and showed the band's guts and commitment to its craft, playing every song from their new album A Matter of Life and Death at the Agganis Arena at Boston University.
All the King's Men2 starsDirected by Steven ZaillianStarring Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet and Mark RuffaloLike the rhetoric and politics of its Huey Long-inspired main character, Louisiana Governor Willie Stark (Sean Penn), All the King's Men is verbose and passionate, but ultimately shallow and lifeless.
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