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BOSTON—If you looked at a program for yesterday’s C.R.A.S.H.-B’s indoor rowing competition, which displays headlines such as “I Was Bigfoot’s Erg Slave” and “Puce is the Hot Winter Color,” you might have thought that the event was a joke. But while the program emphasizes the event’s fun spirit, don’t let it fool you: the competition is fierce and attracts the best rowers in the world...
...risk for Kim Jong Il is that citizens with new access to radios and VCRs are learning that their miserable status is not inevitable. "Now people's minds are more open," says Park, the television trader. "They are all demanding better living standards." Dragging a color TV from China to sell in a Korean market may not be the way that revolutions normally start. But such flickers of enterprise may yet light a fire that could consume the regime. --By Donald Macintyre/ Seoul
...this racial dynamic that distinguishes this film from the cookie-cutter romantic comedies that often color the Valentine’s Day cinematic slate. Successful Caucasian businessmen pay Hitch, the only African-American in the film, large sums of money to be tutored on wooing beautiful Caucasian women...
...when I returned to Cambridge after winter break, I found myself questioning for the first time my color-blind dating style. I was sliding smoothly back into the pattern my grandfather had warned me about. Why, I wondered, was it so easy? I’ve never even had a serious conversation about race with any of my boyfriends. Shouldn’t race be more of an issue? It’s an especially difficult question for me because, until coming to Harvard, I didn’t know a single interracial couple. At Harvard, on the other hand...
...racial similarity does not guarantee a smooth ride when it comes to friendships or romantic relationships. Perhaps so many people have trouble finding that elusive spark or electricity with another person because they’re only looking in one place; take it from me, electricity crosses the color line. Besides, like my dad once told me, you can’t choose who to fall in love with...