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...academic senate to take fewer students based solely on academic criteria such as grades and standardized tests (now 50% to 75% of the total) and more on a "holistic" assessment. The initiative's backers say the looser rules could help increase enrollment of underrepresented minorities who, as a group, fare less well on exams like the SAT. (U.C. officials deny that any of their actions are an attempt to do an end run around Proposition...
...heart; neo-soul crooners Maxwell and Bilal want you for your mind. Maxwell's laid-back CD Now lacks the fire and immediacy its title seems to promise, but the immaculate production and Maxwell's thoughtful, nuanced vocals raise the album above standard R.-and-B. fare. Bilal's smart debut, 1st Born Second, has an admirably adventurous spirit, blending hip-hop, scat, reggae and rock. On a few tracks, Bilal's eclectic musical vision flies out of control, but on the best songs, such as Sometimes, he conjures up gritty grooves that keep his spacey melodies tethered securely...
RaHoWa's Cult of the Holy War CD, with its rants urging whites to kill "vile, alien hordes" and destroy the Jews, is typical fare for Resistance Records, the world's leading purveyor of "hate-core" music. Some other hot titles from Resistance's catalog: Nordic Thunder's Born to Hate and Centurion's Fourteen Words. The 14 words? "We Must Secure the Existence of Our Race and a Future for White Children," as the CD jacket helpfully notes...
...long ago, betting on the success of a South Korean film would have been foolhardy. Only hard-core cinephiles were sitting through the dialogues in Korean, watching actors nobody had heard of. Even Koreans preferred Hollywood fare. But the nation's cinema is rapidly emerging from the obscurity of the art-house circuit. A new crop of hip young directors and producers is turning out legitimate hits, like Shiri, a slick spy-action thriller, Friends, a sentimental buddy flick, and Ginkgo Bed, a funky exploration of relationships and reincarnation. Koreans are watching their own movies in record numbers?Korean films...
...Korean cinema enjoyed a brief golden age in the 1960s, when the industry churned out loads of mostly light fare to entertain a nation struggling to pull itself out of poverty. But strongman Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered...