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...Byron Hurt, the director of the documentary “Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” urged a capacity crowd in the Science Center’s Lecture Hall D last night to confront the sexism, homophobia and “hyperaggression” that he said features prominently in today’s commercial hip-hop music. In the past year, Hurt’s film on hip-hop has made a tour of the film festival circuit and garnered national media attention. “This film is about hip-hop, but also about manhood, the construction...
...going to see many more hearings," Schumer said yesterday when I asked him if there was increased willingness of Democrats to confront Bush's war powers. North Dakota's Byron Dorgan, the Democrats' third ranking member of the Senate and an outspoken Administration critic, said he thought it was "a little early" to roll back Bush's expansion of executive power in the previous Congress. A Democratic judiciary staffer supportive of a rollback said, "We understand the political reality." And leadership aides say bluntly that short of new revelations that turn public opinion against expanded executive authority, the Democrats...
Investment strategist Byron R. Wien ’54, who has served as a member of the executive committee of the COUR, says that he was concerned by the fact that so many of names on the list were career academics. “One of the great things about Summers was that his experience was broader than just university life,” Wien says...
...Byron R. Wien ’54, who has served as a member of the executive committee of the Committee on University Resources, an advisory group of major alumni donors, also said that a major advantage of an inside candidate is knowing the ins and outs of the University...
...sensitive study of religion ever conducted, with more than 1,700 people who each answered nearly 400 questions on American religion and spirituality."We wanted to do something that most surveys don't and that is to probe questions that are typically not asked on surveys," said researcher Dr. Byron Johnson, professor of sociology and co-director of the ISR, when the results were released last month. ISR researchers also organized their data according to brand-new categories, dividing American religion into four ways that we can view God - Authoritarian, Benevolent, Critical and Distant...