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...Anane N. Olatunji ’82 says that although Currier House mainly appealed to him because of its modern architecture, living among fellow African American students was an important factor in his decision to apply to the heavily black House...
Since taking office last December, Mexican President Felipe Calderón has deployed almost 25,000 army troops to battle the cartels. So far, the bloodshed has only escalated. And now, there are fewer people left to honestly report what's happening on the ground...
...That definition, of course, could fit many a movie thriller. Indeed, horror and grief are at the center of Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage, an intense sepulchral mystery about a Spanish woman (Belén Rueda) whose adopted son goes missing and is presumed dead; she, however, believes the boy's whereabouts can be determined by spirits in her house, which happens to be the orphanage she grew up in. It sounds hokey, and the film is not reluctant to dabble in ghost-story conventions. But this is a shuddery, splendidly made parable about the power of both grief...
DEFINITION pri-ven-tiv di-ten-shuhn n: Holding someone considered likely to commit a crime...
...light of the recent Imus situation, do you feel that the black community is filled with hypocrisy? Do you still think that it's okay for black people to call their friends the n-word? -Millicent in Bronx, NY Well, I can't speak for the black community given that I am only one member of it and consider myself more a member of the American community. But I don't think it is a question of whether black people should be allowed to use the word or if Don Imus should be allowed to use the word...