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...Mabel Cheung's Beijing Rocks throws down the gauntlet to Hong Kong. By using the young and restless generation?specifically, determinedly unambitious underground rock singers who want music, not Mao?Cheung questions China's new-order identity struggle and serves up a premise that's hard to refute: Hong Kong is passE, Beijing is today and that shift will dictate China's thereafter...
...decision to show their best side at the grille was part of an elaborate scheme that came to Guilianelli “in a dream.” The boys acted on Guilianelli’s fantasy only a few days later by laying down an electric gauntlet to Kirkland residents. On the grille’s rainbow-colored electronic message board, they informed their salivating patrons that if they managed to sell $200 worth of grill items in a single night, that they would follow up such monetary success with a subsequent night of naked grilling. Several nights later...
...piercings and Grateful Dead T-shirts of the Toscanini’s posse. And that hearty artifact from The Era of Male Harvard, Stonestreet, would not seem so conspicuous were it not for the mecca of grunge hip, Urban Outfitters, just around the corner. Nor would the surburban gauntlet of Bruegger’s Bagels, Starbucks and the Tennis Shop seem particularly anything if the unapologetically sketchy 7-11, with outspoken panhandlers in tow, was not immediately adjacent. Harvard Square is like a melting pot with the heat turned off, the Great Strip Mall of the Ivy League...
...them is insecurity. “It’s not that Harvard expects so much from us,” a staff member told me. “It’s us.” Many Harvard students have set impossibly high standards for themselves, and the gauntlet of inevitable rejections that Harvard presents can—does—wreak havoc on them. First comes first-year orientation programs, then freshman seminars, maybe honors-only concentrations, definitely seminars and conference courses. Worse are the extracurriculars: “comping” the Advocate, the Crimson...
...they were taught, we would believe what they believe." Before they could get inside to read that sign last week, the pupils of Holy Cross - Catholic girls as young as four, none older than 11 - got a brutal lesson in belief. To reach school they had to run a gauntlet of abuse from their Protestant neighbors that began with insults and spit and escalated within days to bricks and blast bombs. Scores of police and soldiers were injured protecting the children. As the chaos spread, a Protestant school bus was stoned and a Catholic motorist - apparently reacting to stone-throwing...