Word: daniell
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...most part, though, designers display a staunch regional aesthetic. "The prevalence of capitalist consumer culture from the West has meant that there's a move toward a regional identity," says Daniel Vukovich, a lecturer in postcolonial theory at the University of Hong Kong...
Problem is, the Tropic Thunder stars seem rich at first, but they don't grow; they grow repetitious. Lazarus is a mix of Russell Crowe, Daniel Day-Lewis and Robert De Niro in his body-punishing Raging Bull days, and Downey brings a nice pomposity to his blackface posturing and righteous-pimp drawl. (The joke, by the way, is clearly not on African Americans; it's on the actor's belief that he can play anyone.) But Lazarus and the others out there in the jungle don't evolve or devolve; they are figures from an SNL skit...
...caps a bewildering few centuries for the Chinese of South Africa. Lai, who runs a guitar and amplifier repair shop, steers me a few doors down to Sui Hing Hong and a book called Colour, Confusions and Concessions: the History of Chinese in South Africa by Melanie Yap and Daniel Leong Man. It documents how a tiny minority in a land delineated by race have long been abused from all sides. Many arrived in South Africa as virtual slaves, convicts imported as manual laborers by the Dutch and, later, the British. Their second-class status was formalized after World...
...Daniel P. Robinson ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Kirkland House...
...were genuinely victimized by predatory or unscrupulous lenders as opposed to those who simply made bad financial decisions (especially property flippers) and took on more housing debt than they and their salaries could ever afford. "We want folks to be able to hold on to the American dream," says Daniel Rosemond, the Miami Gardens director of community development. "But at the same time, in a low-wage region like South Florida, we have to be realistic about people who, frankly, aren't ready to be homeowners...