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Ryan Tindle, 21, carried that legacy to its modern-day extreme. In middle school, he started ditching class, trying to escape a tough home life by ingratiating himself with older kids who played rough. So it was little surprise when he traveled the well-worn path of the troublemaker, dropping out of high school and promptly beating up an older kid so severely that Ryan was sentenced to a year at Plainfield Juvenile Correctional Facility. Once inside, one of the few times he picked up a pencil, he used it to stab another inmate in the hand. He felt that...
...games such as Carrom, a pool-like board game, and Khabbadi, a game similar to tag. But the celebration reached its climax with the ceremonial throwing of rang, a colored powder that is tossed at fellow observers, symbolizing the filling of the world with colors, according to Sandesara. In modern-day India, the celebration is a large-scale event where cities enjoy an entire day of rejoicing, Om L. Lala ’06 said. “Even men in suits get hit, and they can’t get mad because it’s Holi...
...Department of Health and Human Services Rescue and Restore Campaign defines sex trafficking as “a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion,” including such forms of exploitation as “prostitution, pornography, stripping, live-sex shows, mail-order brides, military prostitution, and sex tourism...
...foresight to think twice about the harmful images of black people that they advance through film, the Academy could not glorify them with awards. Until these changes are made, the unfortunate reality is that the entire black race will continue to be identified based on the above examples of modern-day minstrelsy that the Academy and the mainstream media so eagerly consume...
...autobiographical tale “The Famous Sushi Pants Story,” modern-day libertine Tucker Max decides that it would be reasonable to buy a portable alcohol breathalyzer and try to match his blood alcohol content to his age. In the process, he takes off his pants at a sushi bar, aggressively challenges a stranger to a drink-off, and wakes up bleeding in his car, his last memory of someone telling him “kiss my ass” at 1:24 a.m. For those Bell Lap readers who have not yet discovered him, we present...