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...gave) an enthusiastic mouthful from Harvard’s resident nympho. Gross...it’s been a big week for the big screen, with two Harvardians in the final for Beauty and the Geek and another in American Idol—hopefully next week’s TV chatter will revolve around Scarlett smooching a Harvard hopeful. JT’s got nothing...
Despite the tension of picking new classes and the chatter about Harvard’s next president, the recent streak of cold weather seems to have dominated talk on campus and in the Square...
When the retail world's bright lights gathered Jan. 15 at investment bank Financo's annual dinner in New York City (a can't -miss annual event for the apparel crowd), the gossips, according to Fortune.com, had one juicy no-show to chatter about: Where was Gap CEO Paul Pressler? Fashion insiders had been numbering Pressler's days for months. And sure enough, after nearly two years of limping sales and yet another holiday season in which the Gap's big idea (more hoodies?) drew yawns from shoppers, Pressler agreed a few days later to step down...
...Sevran's prurient opinions are but the latest addition to the growing racist chatter in the French mainstream. A month earlier, a Socialist political kingpin in the Montpellier region sparked fury - and possible expulsion from the party - by lamenting that France's national soccer team fielded "9 blacks out of 11" starting players. "I'm ashamed of this country," in which "the whites are lousy," he groused, and would soon be fielding teams "where all 11 players are black." That echoed a comment a year earlier by philosopher Alain Finkelkraut, who - seeking to explain the 2005 rioting by youths descended...
...working in practice: discrimination continues, inequality is rife, and notions of color-blindness don't square with the rising chorus of racially loaded commentary. Color-blindness may also function to keep France blind to racial discrimination and inequality, but the rising tide of anger in the projects and racist chatter in the mainstream suggests that the French may soon have no choice but to openly confront what color-blindness prefers...