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...Modern-day gangsta rap is cool. Some stuff I like. Some I don't. Every piece of entertainment sends out messages to young people, though. So what's important is that parents educate their children to know the difference between entertainment and reality...
...book “To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today’s Slaves” spoke in a public forum moderated by Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium last night. Kevin Bales, a leading expert on modern-day slavery, and Zoe Trodd, a special program instructor at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, emphasized the need for individuals to be aware of slavery that exists today and the importance of spurring people to action. Their book, published last June, consists of 95 narratives of people...
...Abdel Kader's resentment and fear of the private security contractors hired by the U.S. is widespread in Iraq. The hired guns, who protect diplomats, dignitaries and businesspeople, tear through the streets of the capital in convoys of armored SUVs - modern-day cowboys armed to the teeth as they ride roughshod over civilian traffic...
Contrary to grade school theater productions across the United States, there was no modern-day pie - pumpkin, pecan or otherwise - at the first Thanksgiving celebration in 1621. Pilgrims brought English-style, meat-based recipes with them to the colonies. While pumpkin pie, which is first recorded in a cookbook in 1675, originated from British spiced and boiled squash, it was not popularized in America until the early 1800s. Historians don't know all the dishes the Pilgrims served in the first Thanksgiving feast, but primary documents indicate that pilgrims cooked with fowl and venison - and it's not unlikely that...
...pictures of modern-day pirates...