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...called Damali Ayo, a black social critic and artist who wrote the book How to Rent a Negro - a satire inspired by the same sentiments as another thing that white people like (#14), Having Black Friends. She thinks the blog, oddly, represents a form of social progress. "I'm really glad that white people are stepping up to critique white culture, because in general white people like to deny that there is such a thing as white culture," Ayo says. And she sort of made me feel better about being enmeshed in that culture. "Stuff white people like is what...
...Principles of Economics will reveal subsidies are, as a general rule, inefficient; they distort incentives and create deadweight loss. While they can produce artificially low prices at the grocery store, the funds paying for this difference come straight out of consumers’ wallets in the form of tax dollars. Ultimately the costs outweigh the benefits. American farm subsidies are no exception, and have the added drawback of incurring the ire of foreign farmers who find themselves undersold by government-backed U.S. agriculture. This consistently creates a roadblock in international trade negations, as evidenced by the near failure...
...Harvard men’s tennis team opened its Ivy League campaign in fine form this weekend, notching two road wins that were identical in score but opposite in feel. The No. 43 Crimson (10-6, 2-0 Ivy) made easier work of Cornell (5-10. 0-2) on Friday than the 4-3 outcome indicates, thanks to a dominant doubles lineup and strong play at the top of the singles lineup. Saturday’s match against reigning league champion Columbia (7-5, 2-1), by contrast, was about as close as a match can be. Harvard beat...
...what now? Well, not much. While the coroner recognized that "unlawful killing is a form of the very serious crime of manslaughter," the inquest is not a criminal trial. The verdict can't be used to launch a criminal investigation or prompt the pressing of charges against any of the paparazzi who are still alive. (Even if it could, Britain's Crown Prosecution can't prosecute foreign nationals for crimes committed abroad, and all of the paparazzi involved are foreigners...
...battle, when, nearly dead, he orders that his body be strapped to his horse so that his presence will put fear into the enemy - a peerless metaphor for star quality. El Cid is one of those miracle movies: the ideal melding of a star at the top of his form in a genre at its most intelligent and enthralling...