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...Michael Vick” Haughton strangled a bulldog to death in the locker room to motivate his players. Even if we were as much of a collective bloodthirsty murderer as you, how would we even go about vanquishing a color? We can’t invent the black and white TV again...
Highlights also included performances by the Black Men’s Forum—or, as emcee Tyler G. Hall ’11 accidentally termed them, the “Bosnian Men’s Forum”—and the cheerleading squad...
...seems to understand that there is inherent humor in the uncomfortable melding of seismically different socio-economic backgrounds, and he never stops effectively exploiting these moments of drama as simultaneous opportunities for humor. “Who’d have thought we’d have a black son before we knew a democrat?” remarks Leigh Anne’s understanding husband, Sean, played by sometime actor Tim McGraw...
...American in Amherst, Mass. in the 1960s, he says, “I’d faced racism ever since the day I’d become conscious as a young kid at age three.” “I was hit with the tidal wave of Black Power and the Black Arts movement,” he says of his teenage years. African American music and culture gave him a way to understand his Asian American identity, and he melded together these two influences in his explorations of jazz, which for him represents...
...ceremony, a modest affair by Afghan standards, was a celebration of traditional headgear. Tribesmen from the east sported vast swaths of butter-yellow silk looped into view-blocking turbans, while their southern cousins opted for the more somber black and gray. Northerners were identified by their flat-topped woolen pakols; the urban élites by their peaked karakul caps. They were outdone only by the portraits of Afghanistan's former rulers that lined the walls of the reception hall - some of those wore helmets. The first few rows were occupied by suited foreign dignitaries, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary...