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...each year, books stars like Jadakiss and Fabolous, and garners national attention—as the April 2010 issue of Teen Vogue demonstrates. Olamide E. Oladipo, an associate producer for Eleganza who oversees finances, points to their reputation as a draw for potential sponsors. “Companies have either heard of us before when we reached out to them five years ago or have never heard of us before, but trust us and are impressed when they see the long list of our past sponsors...
...outside sources for financial support—sources that find charitable impulses a pull for funding rather than a drawback. “I think when you have an organization that caters to minority or underrepresented students, there’s usually a cause attached. Since they are either donating to charity or helping out underrepresented students, companies are more willing to sign on,” says Farah S. Qadar ’10, the president of the Association of Minority Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs (AMBLE), which recently organized and hosted a conference on the Fashion, Media, and Entertainment...
...hair until his third birthday an “upshneering” instead of the Yiddish “upsherin”—and her Klapper character deduces the numerical value of his Hebrew name using a form of gematria so obscure that Goldstein is either being very clever with his dialogue or is in error...
...philosophies, but doesn’t begin to approach the varieties of religious experience—or illusion—in the modern world. For Goldstein and her characters, the world divides into the rational and the irrational, the secular and the religious. There are the academics, who are either free of the superstitious bonds of faith or only subscribe to it for its social utility, and then there are the unenlightened masses. Azarya’s situation is similarly rigid—he must choose between living entirely outside modernity or entirely within it, when few such isolated shtetls...
...many exuberant refrains infectious: “But I’ll be true to the song I sing, and live and die a Pirate King.” The strength of the supporting cast sometimes threatens to overwhelm Frederic’s character—which Nelson, either purposefully or not, imbues with a sense of weakness—but that is, perhaps, the point. Frederic—who stubbornly holds to his idea of duty even in morally complex situations—is essentially a feeble character, and only his love for Mabel begins to change that...