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...present as there were people (It’s hard to tell if the dining halls are serving food or prepping for surgery...). I decided to postpone my personal (mal)nourishment and fulfill my duty as Roving Reporter by asking my fellow students what they thought about the criminal lack of hot breakfast during the week this year. Andrew M. Goldberg ’10, Lowell RR: How do you feel about the cuts of hot breakfast this year? AMG: Annoying. Kinda rude. RR: You don’t think cottage cheese and ham are breakfast foods? AMG: Those aren?...
...into a "contempt of cop" law, as he puts it. "Frankly, I think having someone dropping the F-bomb is better than resisting arrest or taking a swipe at a police officer," Walczak says. "But what we're seeing too often is that police who are offended by a lack of respect, often manifested by profanity or cursing, will punish people for that." (Read Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Henry Louis Gates Jr. affair...
...Afro-Mexicans face considerable hurdles. Prevailing stereotypes paint the group as happy to live the simple life apart from the rest of society, with no interest in education. The all-black shantytowns near Yanga lack schools, and eager young migrants who move to bigger cities for work complain of blatant discrimination. A report released late last year by Mexico's Congress said that roughly 200,000 black Mexicans who reside in the rural areas of Veracruz and Oaxaca and in tourist cities like Acapulco are out of the reach of social programs like employment support, health coverage, public education...
...Hatoyama knows this mandate is provisional. In modern times the Japanese have been wary of radical change, and it's unclear to what extent the DPJ's ambitious platform can be implemented by a party criticized for its lack of unity and common ideology, not to mention experience: 46% of the incoming crop of DPJ members are first-time parliamentarians. But public impatience with politics as usual has boiled over; the DPJ's novices would be well advised to follow Hatoyama's lead and start hustling. Below, we've pinpointed five areas on which the new ruling party should focus...
...possibility that Israel will bomb an unrepentant Iran has been well documented. The Wall Street Journal has highlighted on its editorial page the potential crisis this may pose for the Obama administration, while the Los Angeles Times has featured an editorial arguing that Iran’s lack of cooperation in September could lead to a unilateral Israeli response in self-defense...