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...Vloka to win the gold medal, 15-14. Last year, in the finals of the NCAA Championships, Ward defeated Vloka again, this time by a decisive score of 15-4. This Saturday, however, it was Vloka that would come out on the winning end of a thrilling back-and-forth contest...
...gentrification in American cities. There is gender and sexual flexibility in the metropolitan Hipster scene, but this comes with the relative safety of increased mainstream and corporate acceptance of queer identities, which the Beats did not have. The music of Hipsters is the mash-up, which rather than putting forth an original and challenging new style of music, plays off the popularity of different mainstream elements that produces something new, but not original...
...plan put forth by Liebman and his colleagues fixes the Social Security solvency problem without requiring draconian tax hikes or damaging benefit cuts. Moreover, it’s not just an academic proposal: public advocates include a number of Congressional Republicans, most notably and recently Paul Ryan...
...when Walcott turns his attention to his own poetry, however, that he displays the heights of his lyrical abilities. As he gazes once more at egrets taking flight in the distance, he compares them to the poems that he is sending forth into the world: “they are the bleached regrets / of an old man’s memoirs, printed stanzas / showing their hinged wings like wide open secrets.” The “bleached” quality of his thoughts is not due to his age alone; the poet is presenting himself to the world?...
...establishment of ethnic studies as a secondary field introduces a new way of thinking. It serves as a counterweight to the kind of academic chauvinism that puts forth the risky proposition that some degrees are more important than others. An avid student of the Eurocentric, so-called classical model of Western education would be wildly ill-equipped to understand the broad, socio-cultural forces that shape current events in the national and international spheres. Purposely ignoring the experiences of non-Western peoples would be like looking at the world with one eye closed—with a massive blind spot...