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...Quebecer originally from Pakistan, I was thrilled to learn that Obama's mother spoke French and beginner's Urdu. I hope her bright son wins the presidential race and enters the White House as a humble and humane President caring for the whole of humanity, irrespective of color, race or nationality. Jalal Hussain, BROSSARD, QUEBEC, CANADA...
...last Friday nights at Harvard, and if the pictures peppering her bedroom wall are any indication, it won’t be long before the night is filled with more Kodak moments to commemorate her collegiate career. I watch as the iTunes visualizer explodes with arcs of color corresponding to M.I.A.’s “No one on the corner has swag like us.” Rocking jet-black tights, hoop earrings with the circumference of a small apple, and a tight top streaked with bands of pink and orange, Adelman is the epitome...
...glitter and gold on Friday in the Bright Hockey Center for the annual Eleganza fashion show. In front of a crowd estimated at nearly 2,000, with a sold-out VIP section, 49 students paraded down the runway modeling a colorful array of getups. The theme of this year’s show, hosted by BlackCAST (Community and Student Theater), was “Elements of Desire,” with four acts centered on Earth, Fire, Water, and Air motifs. Each scene displayed a different color scheme: Earth models wore brown-tones, Fire models wore red-tones, Water models...
...From a technical standpoint, flashy digital cameras and color iPods have set the bar so high for consumer gadgetry that spending, on average, 11 cents to send each text-only message seems absurd. The Short Message Service (SMS) protocol, a technology from the 1980s which still accounts for nearly all cell phone text messaging, has no formatting and a limit of 160 characters. Entering messages requires painstaking key pecking, and received messages can come out of order. Yet rather than dismiss it as backwards, most users see text messaging as a godsend and fail to appreciate it for the terrible...
...Djata, of course, does not realize the totality of the situation; it is up to the reader to fit together the facts and realize the true terrifying nature of Djata’s society. Djata is very much preoccupied with simply figuring out his own world, that eating colored chalk does not give you fever (“nothing happened to us except we peed in color, my pee was on the reddish side and Szabi’s was greenish”). It is this contrast of childhood innocence against ruthless violence that makes “The White...