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...slave religion -- although many, many more continue to practice it today -- and were looking for ethnic heritage and pride. Although the early days of the Nation of Islam are murky, the official version is that Wallace D. Fard founded it in Detroit in 1930, allegedly upon arrival from Mecca. He disappeared a few years later and was replaced by Elijah Poole, renamed Elijah Muhammad, who reigned until 1975 over a black nationalist ! business and religious empire. Among its most celebrated converts was boxer Cassius Clay, later Muhammad...
Located in the basement of the Carpenter Center HFA is a resource for films students, a mecca for cinemagroupies, and, in the eyes of many ordinary movie-goers, an outright peculiarity. Films screened at HFA this month include "Sensations: A Holy Orgasm of Shadow-Play," "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer," Sex and Zen," and "Backyard Movie," the later juxtaposing "old home movies" with "cheeky footage of naked men on trampolines and frolicking dogs," according to HFA's monthly bulletin...
Boston politicians are already feeling pressure from business leaders to make Boston a mecca for conventions...
...along, but Arthur seems to co-exist with himself quite happily. He is famous in our halls for the very good headlines he comes up with for covers and page layouts and the very bad puns ("The Vegas Notion" for our recent cover on the Nevada gambling mecca) that he sticks in as dummy copy...
...groups peacefully co-exist, getting in each other's way but practicing mutual toleration. But if administrators continue to use "image" to guide their policy, we may be seeing a lot more restrictions on students' behavior. The same mentality that's made Harvard Square a glittering neon shopping mecca threatens to turn the Yard into a Fun-Free Zone...