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...tough ticket the night the film The Harder They Come premiered at the Carib Theater in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1972. A crowd of some 10,000 turned up and a near-riot ensued. Like all those who got in, the island's Prime Minister and his wife were jammed two or more to a seat, while instead of a red carpet entrance, director Perry Henzell's wife, Sally, had to be bodily lifted in over the heads of the crowd. Just 6 at the time, Henzell's daughter Justine wasn't allowed to attend, even though some of her earliest...
...idyllic poverty of the countryside for the squalid poverty of Kingston to follow his dream of becoming a recording star, only to die in a hail of bullets on the beach? Although Henzell's film was a sharp critique on the closed, cutthroat circle of corruption between the island's music industry, police, and drug dealers, what eventually made the rest of the world take note was the film's blistering soundtrack, which was a breakthrough moment for reggae music. As well as the songs like "Many Rivers To Cross" and "You Can Get It If You Really Want" that...
...reveals that 60% of your final grade depends on your ability to actually feed the world, and only 40% is based on your ability to feed yourself. 9) Contrary to your expectations, your class on dinosaurs does not include a unit on how to successfully escape from an island filled with dinosaurs. 10) Re-reading the CUE guide, you realize that your professor’s 4.9 rating was based on just two evaluations—those of Clifton G. Dawson Jr. ’07 and Jay R. Lundy, Jr. ’09, neither of whom ever took...
...Harvard students had 0-5 drinks the last time they partied.” That is all well and good, because I actually only had 5 drinks the last time I partied. The trouble is though, the last time I raged the dream, I had 19. Long Island Iced Teas, that is. Like more than half of Harvard students, I always set a drink limit for myself. It can vary from “I’m just going to have a beer or two” to “I’m not going to black...
...apply this consideration only to disabled infants? Cheating husbands, alcoholic wives and nagging mothers-in-law are just a few of the many sorts of people who can mean a very disabled family. Why not kill them too? Felicia Nimue Ackerman Professor of Philosophy Brown University Providence, Rhode Island...