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...some cases even conduct background checks on outsiders invited to the event. The rules have sparked school-board showdowns across the country. Administrators say they just want to keep kids safe. Graduating 17- and 18-year-olds who view the prom as a rite of passage into adulthood complain that they are being treated like children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barred from the Prom | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...that was the end of it, I really couldn’t complain. After all, I spent a good number of years helping The Crimson Staff tell people what to think (and as anyone who’s ever eaten dinner with me can attest, it’s a bit of a personal weakness as well). But the new media is different in two important ways...

Author: By Hannah E. S. wright | Title: A More Forceful Fourth Estate | 5/19/2006 | See Source »

...more. Our schedules are busier than a big city mayor's. We are slaves to the five-film-a-day schedule, the press conferences and interviews. Of course, no one who's not in Cannes will feel sorry for you. "You're on the Cote d'Azur - don't complain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Things We Know About Cannes | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...take, or at least not in quite the way I intend to before faced with bubbles to fill.Looking at the nine-page “Senior Survey,” a CUE guide for the entire Harvard experience, I promised myself I would be more objective. I would complain about all the minor annoyances and real aggravations that marred my time at Harvard. And having taken an hour out of my reading period work schedule to procrastinate by answering these questions, I feel like I managed to dispense more constructive criticism than I usually do.Still, when...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, | Title: Why whine? | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...analysis of immigration to Western Europe, asserting that immigration in itself is not a problem, but that unemployment, welfare benefits, and crime are more prevalent in immigrant communities. She also associated the situation among Muslim immigrants with that of groups resistant to assimilation. “Most Muslims complain of stigmatization as a group,” Ali said. “They ask why they are required to assimilate—they want to hold on to their culture.” Ali emphasized that petty crime, dropping out of school, and engagement in criminal activity are not related...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dutch Activist Discusses Islam | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

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