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...difficult for him to enjoy his Harvard experience.“Danny was in his first or second year, really struggling and having a hard time being gay at Harvard,” Robinson says. As a result, he left school and decided to pursue a career in film.Williams moved to New York City, where he became involved with the Factory and with Warhol himself. A filmmaker and electrician, Williams created much of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable Show, but despite Williams’ crucial involvement, this complex light show—which mimicked tripping on hallucinogenic drugs and accompanied...
...hate it (and many do), the Billboard Hot 100 has been tasting cherry Chapstick for 20 weeks and counting. Even New York Magazine’s imperious “Vulture” blog had to admit the song’s success, but not without threatening to move to Canada...
...everyone considers his business acumen fair justification for the decision. Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez told the New York Times the move was "un-American," while the city's comptroller called it "an attempt to suspend democracy." Bloomberg himself has supported term limits since taking office in 2002, and said he continues to favor them. "You're not taking away term limits. You're simply going from two terms to three terms," he said...
...move, announced this week, will unite two government bodies that previously administered aid separately - the Foreign Ministry and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation - under the umbrella of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The revamped agency's annual budget of more than $10 billion puts it in the same league as the Asian Development Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development. With the sagging economy, which many - including Prime Minister Taro Aso - say is already in recession, the reorganization doesn't necessarily mean more money, just a more efficent way at dispensing it. JICA expects the change...
...United Nation's Secretary General on development goals, say that China is providing billions of dollars each year to Africa, although no one knows the official figure. Japan's trade with Africa, about $25 billion, is about one third of China's trade with the continent. Tokyo's move to expand JICA can be seen then as "partly China-driven, since Japan thinks they're competing with China for Africa and for resources," says Robert Dujarric, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University. "And this is partly U.S.-driven, since the U.S. knows that Japan...