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...during the event, sponsored by the Harvard College Sierra Leone Initiative, Washington used a big stick in the typical context. The actor often ignored time rules, spoke over the moderator, and raised his voice at an audience member before dismissing her question...
...Three or four students sent an e-mail, and several others approached the House masters,” Howell said. “We want them to have the party and to have fun, but they should have been more thoughtful considering the context...
...taken out of context,” he added. “The title wasn’t intended to imply statutory rape...
...Jemaine. For fans of their hit TV show “Flight of the Conchords,” their eponymous debut album will likely just be sort of a season-in-song disc, but for those unfamiliar with the HBO series the laughs might be a little out of context. With the new season right around the corner, it would have been nice to see a preview of things to come, but any fan devoted enough (and there are many) to buy the album instead of—or in addition to—the season one DVD won?...
...easy to see why the words of black critics and leaders, taken out of context, can be read as cynical renunciations of country. Abolitionist and runaway slave Frederick Douglass gave a famous oration on the meaning of Independence Day, asking "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." But instead of joining the chorus of black voices swelling with nostalgia to return to their African roots, Douglass stayed put. Poet...