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...Mike. When Jerry accidentally erases the contents of all the videotapes, they resort to “Sweding,” or re-enacting and recording, each of the videos that their customers want to rent. The films are said to be Sweded after Jerry’s claim that customers must wait longer and pay extra money for them because the videos come from Sweden. The movies include “Ghostbusters,” “Robocop,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Boyz in Da Hood...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gondry Talks MIT, DIY, and the Art of 'Sweding' | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...terms of lyrical ability and rhythmic prowess, Jones is not Jigga, nor is he Nas, Lil’ Wayne, or even my drunk aunt attempting a freestyle (true story). Jim Jones is, however, a man of the Harlem streets. So this mixtape derives its drama both from the claim that a Brooklyn rapper could never do justice to the realities of the Harlem streets and the implication that Jones can. Yet what we find in the tracks of this mixtape is not a window into the world of an American gangster from Harlem but a rehashing of trite gangsta-isms...

Author: By Jessica O. Matthews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jim Jones | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...risks looking inept at best and corrupt at worst. The UC should be no exception. If the administration allows the UC to choose its own reviewers, then Dowling II will be hijacked by the UC’s personal interest and will no longer be able to legitimately claim that it represents the wishes of the student body. The resolution, which is intended to protect the UC’s interests, illustrates the UC’s main failure: its inability to transcend its own interests as a student group to become a proper student government. Ideally, a student government...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Jury of Oneself | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

Today it's the source nations that have the whip hand. Nearly all of them have so-called cultural-property laws that lay claim to any ancient objects found in the ground on their territory after a particular year--the cutoff year varies from one nation to the next--and make it a crime to export such material without a permit. A 1970 UNESCO convention has given those laws force in the courts of other nations, like the U.S., that have accepted it. Cultural-property claims by foreign nations are also enforceable in the U.S. under the ordinary law governing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Owns History? | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...modern world isn't divided between capitalism and communism; it's divided in part between nations done dealing with their secessionists and those still fighting. Sri Lanka sided with Serbia, mindful of its Tamil rebels. Even Spain opposed Kosovo's claim as a precedent that could threaten Madrid's sovereignty by encouraging separatists. What's the joke about putting all your Basques in one exit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kosovo Test | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

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