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...coach. Each party blamed the other for “miscommunication.” Such a lack of accountability is built into the current Ivy system. The student was lucky; he scrambled to revive interest from other coaches and eventually got into Yale. In the meantime, he received a crash course in Ivy League ethics—or the lack therof...
...That sort of essentialism is in vogue in Hollywood. This year?s winner for Best Picture, Crash, was essentially a cluster of stock characters ambling on screen only to represent their respective ethnicities. The ambling always ended in racial slurs and suspicion. Like Black.White., nearly every action in the movie is explained by race. Carjacking? What else is a young black man to do? Suspicious of your Mexican locksmith? Well, what do you expect of upper-class white women? Racist cop feeling up your wife? That?s what happens when your dad gets screwed by affirmative action...
...show ignores much more compelling realities. I was amazed that Black.White. could be filmed in Los Angeles, where the population is 44% Latino and 48% white, and yet still proceed as though the ancient black/white dichotomy was still the dominant dynamic. But worse is the feeling, in watching both Crash and Black.White., that you could have made both of them 20 years ago and changed only a few lines...
...trapped beneath the towers' charnel rubble, follows in August. James Vanderbilt's screenplay of Against All Enemies, Clarke's contentious memoir of his career tracking terrorists, which begins with frenetic scenes in the White House on 9/11, is floating around Hollywood. Paul Haggis, fresh from his Oscar upset with Crash, has expressed interest in directing...
...accident have been released, some of the rapids in the area, including several famous stretches, are of type V. Shakir is the second Harvard student to die in an accident in Peru in recent years. In June 2001, Haley S. Surti ’01 died in a bus crash in Peru just days after her graduation from the College. A writer for one of the Let’s Go travel guides, Surti’s death was the first and only fatality of a Let’s Go writer in the publication’s 45-year...