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Director of the Harvard International Office (HIO) Sharon Ladd said her office has been working to comply with newly-enforced requirements that all educational institutions register international students in a national online database called SEVIS...
...Ladd also talked about the problems many intenational stuents faced last fall when trying to get their visas to enter the country. More than a dozen students had to enroll late or defer their enrollment for a year...
...Wakowitz, Esq. represents the diamond-and-cocaine-encrusted rap group The Majesticons, “Lords of the Ching-Ching.” In real life, he’s known as Bronx-based MC and producer Mike Ladd, the man behind Beauty Party, the second triumphant episode in the ongoing battle between the Majesticons and their arch-nemeses the Infesticons. Beauty Party is a complete success, parodying the misplaced values of mainstream hip-hop and R&B, while reveling in the guilty pleasures of club-bumpin’ bangers, booty, Burberry and blow...
...futuristic synth. The lyrics imitate radio-hop’s vapid babble but exaggerate it even further, laying bare its superficiality. “I got so much access to excess,” they croon, “words cannot describe my success.” Yet Ladd has so much fun in the process that “Platinum BlaQue,” like much of the album, becomes a strange mixture of condemnation and homage...
...While Ladd clearly loves the art and comedy of mainstream black music, his point is striking: that the Majesticons of the real world are in danger of assimilating into the ruling class, against which hip-hop has traditionally struggled. It is this tension between celebration and censure that rings true to fans of the music, and makes Beauty Party at once a joy and a challenge...