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...group of professional African Americans who bought land in Sag, built homes and created a community. "According to the world," says Benji, "we were the definition of paradox: black boys with beach houses." With this, Whitehead creates just enough tension for his coming-of-age novel. His teenage hero is both insider and outsider, working nonstop to find his place among the white kids he attends prep school with from September to June, the black kids he hangs out with in Sag and the expectations he's beginning to have for himself as a black American. (See the 100 best...
...Spring Greeney ’09 and Zach Arnold ’10 of the Environmental Action Committee said they nominated Gogan for the award because of his enthusiasm for environmental issues and his willingness to work closely with undergraduates. “He is legitimately a hero to the entire campus environmental community,” Arnold said. A sense of optimism pervaded this year’s awards ceremony, as attendees and speakers repeatedly mentioned the recent elections that have ushered in an administration that prioritizes environmental issues. The ceremony began with a tribute to Lisa P. Jackson...
...Ritchie will presumably have to feature a pipe in ads for his upcoming movie about Sherlock Holmes, due out in France next year. And promising to be even more inflammatory, marketing will soon start on French director Joann Sfar's film about late French signer Serge Gainsbourg, a pop hero whose bad boy image was built on lavish public displays of tobacco and alcohol abuse. Good luck banning that...
...suddenly the IMF is the center of attention again, and this time in a new and unaccustomed role: as the hero of the hour, the institution seen as best able to rescue the collapsing world economy. A principal outcome of the April 2 meeting of G-20 leaders in London was an agreement to triple the IMF's resources to $750 billion, and to allow it to issue a further $250 billion on its own. Part of that money is supposed to go to countries suddenly in financial straits, and part is designed to serve as a more general liquidity...
...footed American hero of the interstate, the blue-colar pope of professional football." -Journalist Sean Mitchell, Los Angeles Times Magazine...