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...film world became such a source of inspiration for hip-hop masters, it was only a matter of time before rappers ended up on the big screen.In the end, it seems that Hollywood isn’t racist enough to turn down a new revenue stream. Beyond the obvious slew of movies about rap culture in the past several decades—“Wild Style,” “8 Mile,” “ATL,” “Hustle and Flow”—rappers are transitioning into...
...tongue of our professor, but from a white classmate, in the midst of a comment on a joke that a slave (the “nigger” in question) told to his master. This came as such a shock to everyone not simply because of the obvious conflict between the race of the commenter and the word itself, but because up until that point, no one—neither the professor nor any other student—had referred to the slave that way. [CORRECTION APPENDED] Once the initial shockwave subsided, a scene in stark contrast to the brochure...
...Chocolate Chex Mix? (Potential interviewees could pick up three bags from the General Mills table before the reps started giving dirty looks.) Said Jessamyn C. Fleming, a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, “I guess there’s the obvious. There are smart kids at Harvard...
...that plagues the current UC. It also disappoints some diligent representatives, who struggle without a sense of purpose.One possible solution is to link the elections to two or three groups with broader political agendas. Every year, these groups would come up with comprehensive electoral lists and platforms. The most obvious candidates are the College Democrats and Republicans. They could turn from party mouthpieces and Washington-internship funnels into responsible conveyors of a coherent political message that is relevant to the needs of the student community. Competition between two parties would sharpen the reflexes of the entire Council, and representatives would...
...Ozarks. About 50 Democrats had squeezed into the Paris apartment for a fund-raising conference call organized by Democrats Abroad, joined by Democrats in Vienna, Strasbourg, London and Cambridge, England, in settings that no doubt were also jarringly different from St. Louis. In this audience, there was an obvious question - a "litmus test," as one Paris Democrat put it - for candidates: How would you have voted on last week's detainee bill, which allows for aggressive interrogation tactics to be used on terror suspects? "I probably would have voted yes," McCaskill said. Then, as the groans and jeers erupted from...