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...especially now that the Cold Crush Brothers’ Grandmaster Caz leads bus tours of the South Bronx for flabby middle-class fans. But beyond the obvious danger of fetishization suggested by the recent invasion of many of rap’s holy sites by camera-toting amateur anthropologists lurk more subtle methodological problems.As tennis shoes and ghettoblasters fill gallery walls, hip-hop curators will inevitably encounter many of the same issues of performance and ephemerality that plague today’s Dada chroniclers at the National Gallery of Art.But while both art forms emphasize live improvisation and countercultural rhetoric...
...delicate and the dangerous meet in the ranch lands of South Texas. In the winter, quail gather in the soft gold of prairie sedge, but snakes, scorpions and wild-boar-like javelina lurk too. In 1999 a fourth-generation South Texas rancher named Tobin Armstrong testified before Congress that he sometimes found illegal immigrants dead of dehydration in the unforgiving brush of his 49,300-acre ranch. It was there that Vice President Dick Cheney, out with a hunting party that included Tobin's daughter Katharine, accidentally sprayed attorney Harry Whittington with birdshot. What took place in the hours before...
...free lunch,” holds no weight at another college. For one, you can sneak into the dining hall and literally consume a free lunch. But if you want some other shit, don’t go to the campus bookstore and buy it like a tool: Simply lurk into the closest dorm and start checking all the doors like you’re playing that level in Mario Bros. 3. As long as you follow that other aphorism, “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth,”a odds...
...most freshmen will have realized by now, Harvard isn’t quite the liberal, egalitarian paradise that its conservative detractors make it out to be. Among the social activists, progressives, and left-leaning intellectuals that populate this campus, there lurk shadowy organizations that conservatively cling to tradition and anachronism, even in the face of great societal progress. The vast majority of the freshman class encounters these nocturnal beasts even before they arrive at Harvard, during pre-frosh weekend. And those who escape them then are nevertheless ensnared by the end of their first week on campus. With names that...
Harvard has bandits. They’re bundled between the pages of cryptic, bland reports about the curricular review; they lurk behind the provost’s wresting away faculty control of grants; they laugh as departments defend themselves after falling out of favor with Mass. Hall. The secretive, non-participatory, top-down processes brought to Harvard by the current administration threaten a key principle of university governance: those who lead the University’s intellectual life, the tenured women and men of Harvard, are best suited to make decisions affecting that intellectual life...