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...Officers responded to Pennypacker Hall after a noise complaint...
...Make Your Own History Don't Ask, Don't Learn By NED RANDOLPH Hong Kong Hong Kong is joining a region-wide chorus of complaint against Japan's whitewashing of history in school textbooks. Protesters Saturday marched on the Japanese consulate carrying banners. "The Japanese government tells lies to young Japanese people," says Pius Yum, a 26-year-old member of the Association for Democracy and People. But history books in Hong Kong have holes you could shoot a Long March missile through. Only a single text refers to the Tiananmen protests of 1989?without mentioning fatalities?and the twin...
...parliamentary opposition insists the President is trying to crush media opponents of his controversial "Sunshine Policy" of engagement with North Korea. One common complaint: South Korea pours aid into North Korea and gets little in return. Smaller newspapers, which are less critical of Kim's policies (and less influential), got off lightly in the tax inquiry. The opposition also says Kim wants a kinder, gentler media ahead of next year's presidential election. Kim cannot run again but he'll help pick his party's candidate. The President dismissed the charges last week, calling the tax probe "fair...
Looking back, Roth sees a pattern to his work: "Ever since Goodbye, Columbus, I've been drawn to depicting the impact of place on American lives. Portnoy's Complaint is very much the raw response to a way of life that was specific to his American place during his childhood in the '30s and '40s. The link between the individual and his historic moment may be more focused in the recent trilogy, but the interest was there from the start." Roth is a serious writer who has never been somber in print; his narrative voice is unique...
...this project's more controversial selections. Just last month, The New Republic devoted 4,000 words to explain why he and fellow African-American comic Chris Tucker were "reactionary" and to decry Rock's "reliance upon minstrelsy and coon comedy." The criticism echoes a frequent complaint that Rock's politically incorrect humor gives cover to racists--most infamously his "Niggas vs. Black People" routine from the Bring the Pain HBO special that helped revive his career in 1996 after three years in the wilderness that followed his underutilized tenure on Saturday Night Live. As the heart of the bit went...