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Blair F. Baldwin ’02 has no problem with women smoking cigars, but is convinced that “It’s an empowerment thing, a role-reversal that lets women behave like the fat-cat, corporate, maraudering men who traditionally have dominated the scene in the United States...
...startling to confront this fierce, crotchety man when you're expecting the human version of Totoro, the fat furry sprite from one of Miyazaki's best-loved movies. Miyazaki is known for his oeuvre of wildly popular, feature-length animation films that showcase a childlike vision and an imagination from which spring fantastic kingdoms, strange creatures, flying contraptions and plucky-kid heroes. But he also possesses an intellectual intensity that drives his projects and a disdain of publicity that makes him about as easy to interview as J.D. Salinger. Yes, he's weaving stories for children. But he commands...
...Cigarette smoking kills 400,000 Americans prematurely every year. Poor diet (read: high fat) and poor health habits (read: little exercise) kill over 300,000 people every year. Alcohol consumption kills 125,000 people a year. These deaths result from choices people freely make in their own lives (excepting those, of course, who die from secondhand smoke or those who are killed by drunk drivers). These numbers that would be mind-numbingly attractive, by the way, to even the most sanguine terrorist...
...business four years ago, Hax has developed a vast following of confused gen-Xers across the nation who read her syndicated column or catch her online chat sessions. Hax’s wisdom has become so popular she recently published a book, Tell Me About It: Lying, Sulking, Getting Fat and 56 Other Things Not To Do While Looking for Love...
...M.C.s (the guys with the microphones) -- Kit, Yan, Phat and Wah -- rap about fat girls, absent fathers, uncool triad gangsters, smoking dope and creating an authentic, home-grown pop culture. "So many kids in Hong Kong try to imitate the Japanese," says Yan, sitting in the LMF band room, meticulously rolling a Rizla cigarette paper around a line of weed. "It's not about nationalism or anything," he insists, "but no one should want to be a fake Japanese person." The group rarely uses English in their songs and resent accusations that they're just copying American hip-hop fashions...