Word: attestations
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Usually, the supporting players carry the melodrama, and Perry's Madea shoulders the comedy. Black actors playing fat women is not exactly an innovation, as Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy can attest. But the 6-ft. 5-in. (1.96 m) Perry, who in civvies has the smooth good looks of a Will Smith, cuts an arresting figure. Outfitted in a purple print dress, giant glasses and sandbag bosom, carrying a purse with three handguns and punctuating every comment with the wave of a cigarette, the star stomps around the stage shouting out orders and ridiculing the supporting characters for being...
...want you to do me any favors,’” Allard says. “This team, I feel, can handle it.” Harvard will need to be battle-tested when it heads into the Ivy schedule. As all defending champions can attest, that label is enough to get opponents psyched up to play you. With every team in the Ivies ready to bring its best when it plays the Crimson, a repeat—even with a talent-laden squad—is no simple task. Having the right mix of confidence, determination...
...first pick in the housing lottery, seniors will not be able to live in suites in which every resident has a single without someone living in the common room. The overcrowding of river Houses is no surprise: anyone who has visited these oft-coveted rooms by the Charles can attest to their all-too-cozy conditions. What is shocking, however, is the way in which the College and Winthrop House went about dealing with overcrowding. Although the change in Winthrop will benefit rising sophomores (the policy makes many of the house’s cramped sophomore quads into triples...
...world's highest HIV/AIDS rates - an estimated 25% of adults between 15 and 49 are infected - it also has an unusually progressive program to deal with the disease. The contrast with neighboring Zimbabwe could not be more stark, as hundreds of thousands of refugees can attest...
...sports, is arguably the crowning achievement in a career dedicated to enhancing the quality and opportunities of the collegiate experience. Since Title IX, participation in women’s athletics in American colleges and universities has increased by over 400 percent. Harvard’s teams alone can attest to the popularity and prominence of female athletes (just ask the reigning Ivy League women’s basketball champions or the women’s hockey team, which is headed to the Eastern College Athletic Conference semifinals this weekend). Although not without its critics, Title IX was an overwhelmingly positive...