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Just four days after Harvard Medical School professor Jim Yong Kim was selected as the 17th president of Dartmouth College, a popular Dartmouth daily e-mail update sent a message to approximately 1,000 students about Kim’s appointment that was laden with derogatory racial slurs. The “Generic Good Morning Message” (GGMM)—a list-serve administered by six students that is not affiliated with the college—sent an e-mail about Kim that directly attacked his Asian origins. “Yesterday came the announcement that President...
...forte and a weak compliance with cliched notions of marketable hip-hop songs. The grand master consistently becomes ensnared in sounds and influences that are not his own. Saddler, who debuted his craft at block parties and nightclubs throughout the South Bronx in the 1970s, puzzlingly indulges in bass-laden, ominous beats that elicit doomsday scenarios and desolate imagery. “What if hip-hop was never born?” an electronically slurred voice asks on “What If,” before KRS-One delves into a harrowing description of this hypothetical world. Another portion...
...first major decision as Commander in Chief, Obama promised an additional 17,000 troops for Afghanistan, but he still hasn't fully defined the U.S. goal there, even though he repeatedly insisted during the campaign that this war - the war that began as an effort to find Osama bin Laden and dismantle al-Qaeda - was in the national interest...
...being just an intelligent reading of the blogosphere. When the former CIA director George Tenet said in testimony the "system was blinking red" in the months leading up to 9/11, he in effect was referring to chatter - interceptions, rumors picked up by friendly governments, sorting through Osama bin Laden's propaganda. Look at the 9/11 Commission report, and although you won't see specifics as to how or when bin Laden intended to hit the U.S., it was clear he intended to. Even with a warning as vague as this, many argue, the FAA should have ordered the bolting...
...wave of terrorism attacks that have scarred Pakistan over the past two years, the perpetrators have normally used improvised explosive devices, bomb-laden vehicles and individual suicide bombers. A full-frontal assault is new. The resemblance it bears to the Mumbai attacks, with young men carrying backpacks and openly brandishing their weapons, suggests to some analysts the possible involvement of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group based near Lahore. (See pictures of Mumbai picking up the pieces...