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...insulting to African-Americans to assert that use of the term "nigger" is responsible for underdevelopment. Anyone who has spent real time in the "inner-cities" Star describes in such mystical terms, will attest to the seriousness with which many if not most of the residents comport themselves and contemplate ways to improve their lot. I know for a fact that there exist in these "inner-cities" scores of people who have never referred to themselves as "niggers" and "bitches" and yet they remain poor. What would Star say to these people...
There is nothing wrong with a career in investment banking or consulting; after graduation, working in those fields can provide students with opportunities to travel around the world, manage money and earn a comfortable living. The annual autumn recruiting sessions attest to these fields' popularity among Harvard students, and any Harvard career fair would be amiss not to feature these companies prominently. Yet a career fair with nearly two-thirds of its offerings in those fields short-changes those Harvard students considering doing something else with their lives...
Dinner theater: the very phrase brightens eyes in this nation of snackaholics. Movie-house owners have long catered to the eat-and-art urge, as the stalagmites of chewing gum and Jujyfruits on the floor of the local Googolplex will attest to future archaeologists. In the past decade, producers of live shows merged foodomania with Disney-style theme attractions (Medieval Times, King Henry's Feast) to create that curiosity known as environmental theater. Song of Singapore was set in a lavish nightclub in 1941. For Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding you went to church, then to a restaurant. When Tamara...
...anyone who has lived in a small town can attest, social intimacy comes at the price of privacy: everybody knows your business. And that's true in spades when next-door neighbors live not in Norman Rockwell clapboard homes but in thatched huts...
...fellow actors attest that he is relaxed and totally pro these days. "He's an incredibly hard worker," says Nine Months' director Chris Columbus, who was impressed that Arnold could hold his own in improvising bits with Grant and Robin Williams for the film's hospital delivery-room scene. But in interviews he is constantly squirming, endlessly restless. He has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Ritalin might help control the symptoms, but he won't take the medicine, on the (unproven) theory that it could lead back to his drug addiction...