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In addition, many white students who come to Harvard come from comfortable, established backgrounds, and feel they have many options about ways to spend their time. Yet there are those of us, many of whom are from minority backgrounds, whose college experience does not represent a four-year diversion from...
The rumors at the 56th cannes Film Festival were so much more entertaining than the stuff on the Grand Palais screen, they deserve their own prizes. So here are our Kick-the-Cannes Awards. Best Pre-Festival Disaster Scenario: The Hell-no-we-won't-go rumor. After Gulf War...
As if the tale of Funny Cide, the lightly regarded gelding that won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, weren?t inspiring enough, the horse seems to be carrying a patriotic pedigree as well. Three of the original six high school buddies from Sackets Harbor, N.Y., who ponied up $5,000...
INN REMEMBRANCE Just a short walk from drab, downtown Gangtok is the nostalgic Nor-Khill Hotel, tel: (91-3592) 225637. Built by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim in 1932 as a guesthouse for visiting dignitaries, it's a stunning example of old-school Sikkimese architecture. And its red pillars, peaked...
No one ever accused Albarn of backing down from a challenge. He has always been ready to struggle to get his own way, starting with the public potshots he exchanged with Oasis in the mid-'90s, during the media-fueled battle - mods vs. rockers redux - for the Britpop crown. "It...