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...that's a harder attitude for older people - who grew up with more cultural and actual segregation - to accept or to mimic. Part of the problem with Imus' joke was that it was so tone-deaf. "That's some rough girls from Rutgers," he said. "Man, they got tattoos ... That's some nappy-headed hos there." The joke played badly in every community, raising memories of beauty bias (against darker skin and kinkier hair) that dates back to slavery. Tracy Riley, 37, of Des Moines, Iowa, who is of mixed race, said the incident was among her four kids' first...
...ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID...Despite the opportunities that blogging gave them to earn their writing gigs, many Harvard bloggers discuss the understanding gap between the younger e-generation and their elder counterparts. Often this misunderstanding leads to a disconnect between what employers understand about blogging and the actual subject matter that the Harvard bloggers are told to cover. Theodore B. Bressman ’06, who now writes for Sports Illustrated on Campus and hopes to write for television, provides an egregious example of the phenomenon.Along with former Crimson editor Christopher Schonberger ’06, he wrote the popular blog...
...preservation on the prime real estate of 90 Mount Auburn Street instead of putting the space to better use. Economics is the College’s largest department, and has one of its highest student-teacher ratios. The planned Littauer renovations could have invigorated pedagogy, providing new spaces for actual contact between students and professors in a department that likely contributes heavily to the poor advising satisfaction ratings given by concentrators in the social sciences. Now, as economics department chair James H. Stock admitted to The Crimson, students will have little reason to visit Littauer’s tiny classrooms...
...poses is that it may cause pre-cancerous changes in the cervix, vulva, anus, or penis. Pre-cancerous cervical changes (by far the most common among these four) can be detected by a pap smear; medical follow-up can ensure that pre-cancerous changes do not develop into actual cancer. Nevertheless, despite the potential for prevention, each year about 14,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and more than 3,900 women die of the disease. The new vaccine Gardasil—for women only—protects against four strains of HPV that together are responsible...
...When some judges pointed out that they could not decide the case in Scott’s favor if they lacked jurisdiction, Amar responded that the case is remembered for the sweeping propositions made by Taney, not the actual effect of depriving one man of his freedom...