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Last night’s episode of So You Think You Can Dance (7.26) began with choreographer Mia Michaels apologizing for a jacket she had worn on the previous night’s episode. Apparently, it was a military jacket (USMC?), but with the insignias sewed on upside down.
I’m posting this video because I thought Women and War might find it interesting, and I think I’ll pick this up myself. Band of Sisters is a new book by Kirsten Holmstedt on female combatants in the Iraq War.
So what do we call terraforming gone wrong?
Terraforming: the transformation of one kind of space into another, non-native form. The intersection of material power and imagination. Manifest destination.
Speaking of dreaming for a better world, and how hard the world makes dreams: Cindy Sheehan has announced that she will no longer allow herself to be the face of the anti-war movement. Here is the beginning of her letter, reproduced here from her online diary @ Daily Kos
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