Word: ghettoes
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...were an ethnic group, I suppose I'm doing the same thing. [The decision] has good and bad aspects. The good aspect is that in America nothing ever gets done politically unless you represent yourself as an ethnic group. But the bad aspect is that if you're a ghetto then you're subject to pogroms...
...Dean's Office. Perhaps this is compensation for the proctors loss of pet-keeping privileges. Considering the importance that Rudenstine ascribes to physical position, we should all recognize the implication of a bureaucratic bloc in the center of the yard while academic disciplines are relegated to their own peripheral ghetto. Thus we should not be surprised that the University perfunctorily apologizes as students are carted off to 29 Garden St., as the Administration plans to convert the Massachusetts Hall dormitories into more office space. Those pesky students and professors! If we can't get them out of our hair, perhaps...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Los Olvidados" at 7:30p.m. A gang of young boys fight for survival inthe urban ghetto of Mexico City. "ManufacturingConsent: Part 1" at 9:15 p.m. "ManufacturingConsent: Part 2" at 5:30 p.m. See Thursday'slisting for more information...
...Pounded out in lyrics where testosterone always gets the last word, it updates the Three Penny Opera equation of gangsterism and rawboned free enterprise. The rhyming talk about Glocks and Uzis, the porn fantasies and rat-a-tat expletives -- all of it helps establish the rapper's ghetto credentials, excite the white teenage boys who are among rap's main consumers and provoke the mainstream press...
...character, other times bragging that their bad-boy credentials are for real. Both things can be true. Caught up in the echo chamber of pop culture, rappers can hear their own songs egging them on to their old mayhem, even as their record sales lift them out of the ghetto...