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...Kids looking for cinematic transgression today have to get it on on the screen. Modern theaters are just boxes with movies inside. They are to the vanished grind houses what the Disney-dressed-up 42nd Street is to the old, disreputable Deuce...
...clothes in the show are a mixture of thrift store finds, students’ own clothing, pieces lent from local shops such as Mudo—a co-sponsor of the show—and original student designs. Hyphen, a San Francisco-based magazine on modern Asian-American life and culture, is also co-sponsoring the show and providing some of the clothes.‘PRETTY OUT THERE’AAA hopes “Identities” will become an annual event with different themes every year. For now, the hope is that it will be a unique...
Although money is necessary to win a modern campaign, its influence is easily over-estimated. Most successful candidates raise more money than their competitors, but most donors only want to give to a winning candidate, and therefore the fundraising disparity could simply reflect donors’ risk-aversion. It is a chicken or egg question: The same qualities that lead to electoral success—charisma, policies, and experience—also lead to increased donations, so it isn’t clear whether candidates win because they get more money, or vice-versa...
...kind of person you meet on the street every day. We hear about the faraway conflicts he’s forced into, but he remains little more than a number in the death toll, a nameless perpetrator of a brutality that’s incomprehensible to the modern, Western mind. For Ishmael Beah, though, such a life was reality—a reality that he renders with emotional complexity in “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier.” Beah, a former child soldier who spoke openly about his experiences at the United Nations...
...President-elect Drew G. Faust and freshman Jane Doe would use different doors to enter and exit their office and abode, the tradition of bringing the two power poles of Harvard into close proximity harkens back to Harvard’s roots as a Puritan college rather than a modern university. The odd mixture is unique to this College and worth preserving. Though Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 claims that the building has outlived its usefulness as a dormitory, it remains unclear why this is the case. Only 18 students live in Mass. Hall...