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Mark Watson, Howell, discovers that the only scholarship left to Harvard is for black students. In order to get the scholarship, he paints his face a dark shade of khaki. He gets the scholarship, forcing him to go to Harvard as an African American. Soon, he meets and falls for a black girl. Racial misunderstandings lead to meaningful hilarity! In one memorable scene, Professor Banks, played by Jones, calls for Mark Watson, to which Howell responds “Right on.” Oh, well, then, he must be black! It is essentially the opposite of Eddie Murphy?...
...spotted a dark-haired girl getting diet coke...
Look at the old president and the new; look at their white skin. Look at the 15 members of the new cabinet. They are no different. Look at the protestors: the miners, the coca growers, the poor and hungry. See their faces: dark and wrinkled. They have different brows, different cheeks. They are the color of the earth in Bolivia...
...berating, they pronounced the terminal “r” in “Nomar” and “Mueller.” On the Red Sox hats they’d folded into rally caps, each “B” shone, gules, against dark-blue backgrounds. Disgusted, I turned on my heel and ascended from Waka. “Never trust a man with a new baseball cap” is an axiom I’ve just made up. I hope it gains currency...
...those of us who cannot recall what life was like before Roe v. Wade, “choice” for women too often meant the “choice” between self-mutilation with a coat hanger, a dark alley “butcher” or a long trip to one of the few sympathetic physicians that secretly provided medically safe abortions. While today women could not imagine a world without contraception and abortion as viable options, this was the world women faced before...