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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...section of the article suggested that incoming sophomores did not feel welcomed by Adams House. We were interviewed by a Crimson reporter for this article and feel that our opinions were severely misrepresented. Both the manner in which the reporter approached us and solicited our opinions and the context in which they were eventually portrayed are inconsistent with ethical journalism...
...reporter came to us with a preconceived assesment of the feelings of incoming sophomores. When our comments failed to agree with his assessment, rather than report this accurately, he placed a quote in a distorted context so it appeared to support his assertions about Adams House. The article suggested that all sophomores felt unwelcome, when in fact several of us in the group he approached explicitly refuted this claim. The article maligned Adams House for not offering welcoming activities soon enough, when in fact the interview was conducted the day before sophomores were even required to be on campus. Everyone...
...what is arguably Wilson's magnum opus, The Truly Disadvantaged, published in 1987, Wilson turned his sharp eye on "the culture of poverty," a term he does not like. Wilson described the problems of the innercity--crime, welfare dependency, drugs--but in the context of even harsher problems like joblessness, racism and oppression...
...eyebrows were raised, particularly after it became known that the real Paul Theroux had once actually attended a dinner given for the Queen. As a stand-alone piece in the New Yorker appearing under the rather puzzling rubric "Fact and Fiction," Theroux's account provoked justifiable confusion. In the context of My Other Life, though, the episode seems entirely consistent with the mildly plausible and cumulatively bizarre contents of the rest of the novel...
...line to line. Stipe mesmerizingly free associates about how he can't understand "the star-thing," which seems to refer to the way young kids get fixated on their media heroes. "E-bow" has weight enough to cast the more poppy songs on the album into perspective; in the context of this song, all the various pop genres toyed with on the album, from record-company-Romeo to hard-living-guitar-god, seem purposefully overt and artificial...