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...been steamrolled by director David Slade and have come out flatter than the cartoons from the original comic book story on which the movie is ever-so-loosely based. But there’s no point in wasting screen time developing characters’ personalities or backgrounds??they’re all going to die before you can get attached to them anyway...
...look even grimmer for regular applicants, with as little as six percent of the regular pool admitted. As a result, applicants with little knowledge of the admissions process and even less guidance with which to navigate it—applicants who also tend to come from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds??face an unnecessarily high burden when applying that has nothing to do with their academic ability...
...because my mother’s students are from decidedly unprivileged economic backgrounds??many of their parents owe a significant amount of money to the people that “helped” them get out of rural China—Ivy League schools are absolutely out of the question. Instead many get scholarships to local schools such as Temple or Drexel. Yet it strikes me as profoundly unfair that these students, or perhaps more realistically their children, could be deemed by some admissions officer to be an “over-represented” minority, and thus...
...global religion on everything from alcohol to sex to appropriate clothing is a constant and unresolved internal “jihad.”Religion is a mutable concept in the Gaber household. Having one Muslim and one Christian parent—each from very religious but significantly different backgrounds??meant that the issue was polarizing and thus, rarely forced. Religion was a guidebook for living morally but never a checklist for acting “correctly.” While a headscarf was therefore never on my parents’ agenda or even on my radar when...
Just one day earlier, members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Third World Center Organization (TWCO)—composed of students from various ethnic backgrounds??flanked the John Harvard Statue with banners charging that “Harvard’s commitment to diversity is a sham...