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...wind up my last year at Harvard, I find myself vaguely nonplussed. Have four years of nonsensical response papers and vacuous political conversations changed my essence, my marrow? I have changed boyfriends several times, that is true, but that has seemed more a function of whim than personal evolution. A cute man is increasing hard to find. When I look back on my life before Harvard, I find I was pretty much the same person, except that I did not know what country fried steak was and I did not have a newspaper column in which I lambasted other people?...
...enjoying the show, but shit gets real during Ghostface’s verse when the deal in the back room turns violent. As Clan members rush to the back room pulling heat, a geisha enters with the “merchandise.” Here, the symbolic function of the geisha emerges. The pale-faced woman, spinning a fan like a tape recorder while being showered with kilo upon kilo of white powder, unites sex, drugs, money, and music in a single image. The geisha, not the Wu-Tang Clan, is the focal point of this video...
...stories is atomized; when he refers to something that happened in an earlier chapter, he does so as if it were far in the past even though the reader knows that, chronologically, it was a recent occurrence. Djata’s society as a whole seems to function in the same way. His grandfather avoids memories of Djata’s father by refusing to speak with his mother, while Djata’s mother doesn’t ask where Djata is going when he leaves the house with cardboard armor or his blowgun. Even Djata?...
While the libraries are important repositories of knowledge, they also function as the prime study space for students, and they can easily accommodate both needs by allowing food in certain areas. That is, students can have their library and eat there...
...Some suggest that Smith’s fairly smooth ride in pushing his own version of the divisional deanship may be a function of the times. Many professors agree that much of the discontent with the divisional dean structure may have been simply an outgrowth of the turmoil that roiled the Faculty in late 2005 as the tenure of former University President Lawrence H. Summers drew to a close...