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...stay in Tanzania and a summer-long visit to Ghana. My Swahili is solid, and my French is ready to be improved. Things poised as they are, academia is not out of the question.But like many upperclassmen, a fair bit of existential anxiety has lately welled up in me. Here??s my problem: I love history, but I am ambivalent about becoming an academic—the whitest of white-collar professionals, whose usefulness to society at large is questionable, who at worst appears to live in a detached existence floating above the mundane everyday.This spectacle...
...Here??s an existential crisis that Sartre should have been writing about: If my T-shirts are “me,” and my T-shirts are owned by everyone, then does that mean I am like everyone, and thus that I am nothing as an individual? In recent weeks, fashionistas the world over have had to contend with this identity-shattering dilemma.During the semi-controversy surrounding the Women’s & Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania’s recent “girl-cott” of certain Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirts, the sentiment...
...very beginning of the year I was really like, ‘Wow, I’m not sure what’s going to happen here??if I’m going to play or if Richard’s going to be starter’,” O’Hagan says. “It just worked out in my favor...
...pseudo-reality, aspires to some seamless fusion of the real and the really-well-written instead. Every topic addressed in last Sunday’s debate between candidates Vinick (Alan Alda) and Santos (Jimmy Smits) seemed unnervingly contemporary in its relevance, from war and oil to health care. And here??s the weirdest part: the faux “debate” was moderated by Forrest Sawyer, one of television’s more appealing talking heads. So, okay, Sawyer exists in “The West Wing” world, but then so do made-up countries...
...contrast, our negotiations with artists are made possible by a $30,000 allocation from the Undergraduate Council (UC). This sum is one half to one third of artist fees and total production costs can easily exceed six figures. Also, to pull back the veil of secrecy, here??s a picture of how much artists charge: Wyclef asks $45,000; Bob Dylan, $105,000; The Killers, $150,000-plus; Kanye West, $150,000-plus. To get bigger names, we would need to charge higher ticket prices ($30 or more), and in the past, we have had reason to believe...