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...instance, 'Goodbye' opens with a woman striding toward the viewer. Her hourglass figure—white with a shimmering black dress on a black background??drips with sensuality reality can never deliver. Next page: she is wrapped in only a sheet, he’s naked and wiping the booze off his chin. The rectangular text blocks say everything we all dream: “I’m staring at a goddess. She’s telling me she wants me. She sounds like she means it.” Two pages later the woman is dead...
...students that I’ve spoken to—some from New York who are of Jewish background??I haven’t spoken to anyone who felt personally intimidated,” he says...
Post-civil rights America likes to think of itself as rising up by its bootstraps, Louie said in a recent interview. And the “model-minority myth”—the idea that Asian Americans can succeed in the United States regardless of their background??only propagates the idea that class and race doesn’t matter...
...policies and financial aid programs is not easy, and to complicate matters the Office of Admissions must contend with persistent Hollywood attempts to exploit the Harvard image for hilarity and profits. But the true image of Harvard—an evolving institution accessible to all talent, regardless of family background??must reach promising students nationwide...
...Pring-Wilson’s background??he is the son of prominent attorneys and spoke five languages—makes him “an atypical criminal defendant,” says Savannah Guthrie, the CourtTV correspondent who has covered the trial for the cable network...