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(04/06/06 6:00am)
At the height of Nixon's Watergate scandal in 1974, U.S. Sen.
Howard Baker, R-Tenn., voiced the taboo question: What did the
president know and when did he know it? Of the multiple parallels
between Bush's NSA scandal and Nixon's Watergate affair, brave and
honest leadership from Congress, as demonstrated by Baker, does not
make the list. The one exception is, of course, is Wisc. Senator
Russ Feingold. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing March
31 on Feingold's call to censure the president for authorizing a
program of eavesdropping without warrants. At the hearing, former
Nixon White House Counsel John Dean testified that a call to
censure Nixon some 33 years ago would have been a godsend.\ Dean
advised senators to assert authority to curb the president's abuse
of power.
(03/06/06 6:00am)
UltraViolet,\ Kurt Wimmer's newest attempt to cause widespread
Attention Deficit Disorder among moviegoers, is another mediocre
addition to the sci-fi/action genre. It displays all the common
pillars of this group—the computer graphics, the endless sea of
weaponry, the heavily choreographed fight scenes and the violent
female character—and manages to use them in extreme excess. The
movie is a collage of every fight scene that has ever burdened the
silver screen, tied together by a story that has something to do
with rebellion against an authoritarian future government.
Basically, it is another film that will appear to be a film you
have seen before. Except, this time the film has no redeeming
qualities. It is just a bad movie.
(02/01/06 6:00am)
Recently, the Daily Cardinal spoke with UW-Madison Southeast
Asian history professor Alfred McCoy, who authored the book 'The
Question of Torture. A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from
the Cold War to the War on Terror.'
(01/30/06 6:00am)
Superhero fans, do not fear'Batman and Mr. Freeze have joined
forces working together for a better tomorrow ?? or a Wisconsin
game anyway. They are the masked men behind the magical overnight
conversions from basketball court to hockey rink and vice versa at
the Kohl Center.
(11/30/05 6:00am)
Do American women have a 'right' to choose how and when they
give birth? Or is that 'right' another casualty in the pro- v.
anti-abortion battle?
(10/20/05 6:00am)
As of Oct. 17, the UW-Madison Police Department has had the most
detox commitments in the past three years, according to Chief of
Police Susan Riseling, who held a press conference yesterday, at
the University of Wisconsin Police Department.
(10/13/05 6:00am)
In the far southern reaches of Panama, on the narrow strip of
land that connects North and South America, lies one of the few
remaining unconquered regions in the western hemisphere. The area,
known as the Darien Gap, is the only break in the great
Pan-American Highway which stretches from the Northern Alaska, to
Southern Chile.
(10/06/05 6:00am)
This weekend will not be of typical fashion for one of
UW-Madison's fraternities.
(10/04/05 6:00am)
Each morning in Madison, the dawn breaks on a line of red-eyed
consumers waiting to fill up on the precious fluid that empties
wallets, relies on foreign production and provides energy for
forward motion. At over two dollars a unit, coffee provides the
fuel for life. But before caffeine addicts imbibe just any java,
they should support the livelihood of those who produce their
coffee by purchasing fair trade brew.
(09/13/05 6:00am)
The images of Hurricane Katrina defied comprehension. As the
scenes and stories left floating in Katrina's wake filled America's
conscience, a limitless mass of incredulity covered the country.
More than once in gas stations, bars and homes I heard people
remark that a disaster of this magnitude belongs somewhere else.
The simple yet remarkable fact that the words efugee camps"" were
being used to describe the immediate future of our fellow Americans
testified to the unraveling of certain, almost mythical truths that
Americans hold about America. In more ways than one, the images ran
against everything we believe is America.
(04/28/05 6:00am)
It took a lot for \Kung Fu Hustle"" to make it to
Madison.
(04/22/05 6:00am)
The spectacle that is the NFL draft will be upon us Saturday
morning and while there is still ambiguity over who will be
selected with the top overall pick, a more important question begs
to be answered: What if Wisconsin pulls a draft coup d'etat and
snags multiple first-round selections like Miami in 2004 when the
Hurricanes produced an NFL-record six first-round
selections?
(04/06/05 6:00am)
\I wanna feel again / I want to shout / Loud and proud!"" roars
Roger Miret in the opening track to 1984. From the first 30 seconds
of this album, a raging declaration of traditional ""loud and
proud,"" commentary-filled punk songs hit the ears.
(04/05/05 6:00am)
Thefacebook.com addicts, beware: Although your beer
bong-glorifying picture may accurately reflect your lifestyle, the
message this picture sends may reach more than just students-it may
reach potential employers and decrease your likelihood of being
hired. Several employers have discovered thefacebook and use it as
a tool to investigate student job applicants. In turn, employers
decipher the disparities between r??sum?? and reality without ever
notifying the student. From the perspective of an avid thefacebook
user, this new strategy of investigating job applicants is an
unethical affront to students' privacy that can lead to unfair
discrimination in employment.
(03/28/05 6:00am)
My spring break started with a snowstorm and a delay just long
enough to break your heart.
(03/09/05 6:00am)
Imagine our country as a battleground-soldiers separate
families, scaring children and preventing free expression. This is
the basis of the University Theater's play, \Boc??n,"" which is
presented as part of the ""Theater for Young Audiences""
series.
(03/04/05 6:00am)
In 2003, when The Mars Volta released their debut full-length,
De-loused in the Comatorium, the album met extremely mixed reviews.
Some hailed the album as a triumphant work of art, successfully
blending elements from many different styles into a singular,
ambitious masterpiece.
(02/08/05 6:00am)
Insurgents unleashed their most violent attacks in Iraq since
the country's elections Monday, killing 15 people in mortar and
suicide attacks in the northern city of Mosul and 15 more in a car
bombing near a police station northeast of Baghdad.
(01/25/05 6:00am)
The hardest thing in show business is to follow up a phenomenal
success. Perhaps the wisest thing one can do is to shift direction
in full, and for that reason it's understandable why director
Jean-Pierre Jeunet has followed \Am??lie,"" the feel good hit that
captivated much of the world, with the much darker ""A Very Long
Engagement,"" which focuses on the French involvement in World War
I.
(01/20/05 6:00am)
While \Beyond the Sea,"" a biopic about singer Bobby Darin,
directed, starring, co-written and co-produced by Kevin Spacey, may
not be a great movie, or really even worth seeing unless you are a
fan of Spacey or Darin, it certainly is a movie.
