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...Meadows, who admits to once being a "skin" himself, argues that skinheads were amongst Britain's first anti-racists, mixing with newly arrived waves of West Indian immigrants with whom they indulged a mutual love of reggae and ska. Hailing from a staunchly working-class background, Meadows, 35, dropped out of school as a teenager and later made his first films while subsisting on welfare benefits in his native Nottingham. He hit critical acclaim with his 1999 second feature, A Room for Romeo Brass, set in a Yorkshire mining town on the skids...
...There’s that saying, ‘the devil is in the details,’” says Mary Maples Dunn, who was interim dean of Radcliffe at the time. “There were a lot of details.” Amongst these particulars were the alumni who felt dispossessed following the dissolution of Radcliffe as a college, and the establishment of Radcliffe as a home for visiting researchers.“There were a lot of unhappy alumni,” Dunn recalls. “I did talks around the country about...
...lots of children of professors and kids from Cambridge.” “We pride ourselves on the fact that there are jokes that are funny to kids, but also to adults,” adds Birnbaum. Hoagland also stresses the popularity of the show amongst his friends. “I have blockmates who think it’s their favorite thing I do all year,” he says. To overstate the extent to which the members of SGCT plan out their performances though, is to completely misinterpret their mindset, they...
...meet student needs. Rising rental rates have led not to an oppressing commercial atmosphere, but rather to an insipid conformity. Today a total of four different banks occupy prime real-estate in the square—an entirely superfluous number considering their identical function. Property owners—Harvard amongst them—should consider not only the money that they rake in but also the community and atmosphere they hope to create in Harvard Square. That means considering which businesses will best serve the Cambridge community and the students right next door in addition to economic concerns. That does...
...more viable candidates had plenty of criticism to hurl, but almost all of it was directed at George Bush. Amongst themselves, there was only the occasional, indirect jab. Everyone knew that former North Carolina Senator John Edwards was referring to Illinois Senator Barack Obama when he said that on health care: "Rhetoric's not enough. High-falutin' language is not enough." Edwards is the only candidate in the race to have put forward a detailed health care plan; Obama has talked about the issue as a moral imperative demanding bold action, but hasn't offered any. Asked whether Senator Hillary...