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While growing up in Brooklyn, Mary I. Bunting-Smith’s mother would sometimes tell her, “Thee is a funny little girl...
Braimah’s parents—immigrants from Nigeria—had long wanted their Brooklyn-born daughter to go into medicine. In her parents’ minds, becoming a doctor “is a sure bet at being successful...
...Brooklyn native, Blankfein attended both the College and the Law School on a scholarship. He created the Blankfein Family Scholarship Fund, according to the terms of the scholarship, for "deserving undergraduates in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with a preference for students from New York City with a strong interest in the social sciences and who are interested in a career in law or business...
...Yang Twins, and MGMT. For an April Fool’s joke, IvyGate reported April 1 that MGMT cancelled the Yale concert because of “misogynistic artists” like SnoopDog and the Yin Yang Twins...but, as far as we can tell, the Brooklyn-based rock duo is still on its way to New Haven. According to The Yale Daily News, MGMT had been the planning committee’s first choice since they started planning in the fall...
It’s rare that the final track of an album is its most telling, but Brooklyn-based alternative rock band MGMT’s sophomore release, “Congratulations,” achieves just that with its title track; an acoustic ode to success and the acclam that accompanies it. The song, much like their debut album’s opener, “Time To Pretend,” is puzzlingly ironic, in that one is pretty sure it is ironic, but can only guess to what extent. Whereas “Time to Pretend?...