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...white community first removes Michael from other black people, then trains him to beat them up on the field." Well, The Blind Side isn't exactly Gladiator. Oher is being paid well to do what hundreds of thousands of young men dream of. And if he had been left on the streets of Memphis, he might be dead now. But for all the closeups of black-white handshakes, the movie does have a Manichean view of the racial divide...
...years old, and when I was a child, men worked, women kept house and we children were left to our own devices. We built kites from sticks, newspapers and string; scooters from a piece of 2-by-4 and old roller-skate wheels; stilts from leftover lumber. We played hide-and-seek, Come My Good Sheep, Red Rover, marbles and jacks. We played football and baseball with our own rules and changed them if we wanted to. And what happened to us? We grew up to be the Greatest Generation...
...Bloom ’12, the assistant financial manager for the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, entered the bank just after the man left. She was the only customer in the lobby when she entered the bank, and she was depositing a large sum of money at the counter when she noticed the teller who was counting her money drastically slowing down. Bloom said she saw that her teller was distracted by another teller’s facial expression...
...Bloom '12, who was at the bank just after the robber left, said that the teller who was counting her deposit suddenly stopped and ducked underneath the counter with another teller. (The duck and cover technique only keeps us safe from tornadoes, not bank robbers, silly.) Bloom was left puzzled and at the counter with her large sum of money splayed out in piles, the two tellers exchanged in whispers about what they should do next. Bloom did not know a robbery had occurred until she asked over the counter if everything was alright...
Samuel J. Bjork ’10, a chemistry concentrator in Eliot House, left his interview for a Marshall Scholarship in Chicago last month with misgivings...