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Imus targeted the greatest vulnerability of black women--our non-European looks--with the express purpose of reminding us that we are not, and can never be, beautiful. Feminine. We had to be put back in our place, demoted to sex objects, but we couldn't even do that properly with all those braids and broad noses. So we had to be made into men. Criminals and freaks of nature. Makes me wanna holler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Makes Me Wanna Holler | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), choosing which departments get to hire new faculty is much like a parent choosing a favorite child. While those lucky departments express their euphoria, everyone else is filled with jealousy and complains relentlessly. When making these decisions we hope his or her attention will be dominated by balancing two main concerns: the demand for teaching and the University’s research priorities...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Dean for Hiring | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

...says. “You can’t view them all together as just ‘Asian-American.’”Fashion is an appropriate medium for exploring these distinctions, Lee adds, because “fashion is a way to express yourself. So by what people wear, we are trying to see who they are.”AMAZIN’ AZNSLee is directing the “Golden Ghetto” segment of the show, which highlights the so-called “Azn” subculture of predominantly Asian-American suburban communities...

Author: By Alexandra A Mushegian, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Model Minority: ‘Identities’ Takes Runway | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

Einstein tried to express these feelings clearly, both for himself and all of those who wanted a simple answer from him about his faith. So in the summer of 1930, amid his sailing and ruminations in Caputh, he composed a credo, "What I Believe," that he recorded for a human-rights group and later published. It concluded with an explanation of what he meant when he called himself religious: "The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Einstein & Faith | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...reducing travel time between Tokyo and Osaka to around one hour actually makes it faster than going by plane. But air travel makes up only a fraction of the short-haul market precisely because bullet trains are more convenient and almost as fast. (And they're getting faster - the express shinkansen does Tokyo-Osaka in two and a half hours, while this week a French train running on rails almost matched the maglev speed record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go, Speed Levitator, Go! | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

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