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...have a stage show that goes along with the book. Are these two ways of telling this story cathartic for you? No. Because I'm a recovering alcoholic, I kind of did my work on this already. Doing the stage performance is difficult because I'm very emotionally naked and exposed and vulnerable. To have people not only not hate me but be able to relate, it makes the truth of the story even more clear: stop hiding the things that you're afraid of. If you just deal with it and stop feeding it and giving it power, your...
...long history of a particular pleasure in consuming the ideas of black-ghetto-excess dysfunction. It used to not be ghettoized in setting because black people weren't always urban people, but the same images can be found in American history for centuries. So this idea that a certain kind of sexual deviance or violent behavior defines black culture has had a huge market in commercial mainstream culture for at least 200 years. Also, sexist images, which hip-hop has a lot of, seem to do very well across the cultural spectrum. So sexuality and sexual domination sell. Racial stereotypes...
...studio-generated spaces. You had block parties where you had multigenerational consumption. You have 12-year-olds, 18-year-olds, 30-year-olds, 70-year-olds, all at the block party. They live there. They're hanging out. They're not going to listen to a lot of the kind of commercial hip-hop that we're talking about, where people are just rhyming about killing everybody who gets in their way and never caring about a woman - I'm not going to use bad language here; what's the point? - but you get it. There's no way that...
...crux of Faust’s speech was the argument that Harvard has already paid—and continues to pay—its social debts in kind, so to speak; that the work the University does in educating young people and contributing to the world’s research constitutes an unquantifiable sum far beyond what we might provide with a tax from the endowment. “If the endowment were smaller, we would have to do less,” she noted, and then connected this “less” to a string of unassailable...
...threat it faces, and to its status as an emerging economic superpower that is under constant jihadist threat. "We cannot afford to be a tin-pot operation with no capacity to prevent and respond to terror, and bring terrorists to book," says Sahni. "That will not be the kind of country where people would like to invest." And the Mumbai massacre has provoked millions of Indians to demand that the government do a better job of protecting them. So, even if political leaders are inclined to drag their feet, those feet will be held to the fire of mounting public...