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...objectively judge would-be Kroks or Pitches, there is no non-discriminatory criteria to judge one socially aspirant student against another. An “open punch” will never have any substantive effect on the Pudding’s membership; legacies of the club, and students who hail from wealthy backgrounds, will always enjoy a higher probability of membership than the typical undergraduate. Even if the Pudding were to revert back to its ostensibly “open punch” of semesters past, it will remain an exclusionary club...
...billion in annual sales, is staking its claim north of the border. It operates four stores in the L.A. area and will open four more this year. Gigante (pronounced hee-gan-tay) aims to become the most popular supermarket among California's 11 million Latinos, most of whom hail from Mexico and think of the stores as old friends. The chain's ultimate goal is even more audacious: "To be the leading supermarket in Latino areas across the United States," says Justo Frias, Gigante's head of U.S. operations. "And we have the resources and the name recognition...
There's a peculiarly local flavor to the latest show of contemporary art at London's Tate Britain, which opened last week. It's evident even in the work of featured artists who hail from Japan or Turkey. Shizuka Yokomizo photographs strangers at their windows by appointment - a perfect comment on the land of net curtains. Kutlug Ataman devoted earlier film and video work to a transvestite and a faded opera star. Now, in The 4 Seasons of Veronica Read, he chronicles a year in the life of the woman who keeps Britain's official collection of amaryllis lily varieties...
...which 50 Cent executes with his smooth baritone drawl, are “Life’s On The Line” and the rapid, chart-climbing party anthem “In Da Club,” the edgy, infectious beats of which could only hail from uber-producer...
Three of the fellows hail from China, including two from Tsinghua University, which has a growing exchange program with the Center for Business and Government...