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...jeans. And trust me, I have more than my own fair share. Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I’m still bitter about a past jeans-related incident when, as a happy little kindergartner skipping around in elastic waist banded leggings, I snuck into my older sister’s room to try on her new pair of super-slim-fit jeans from the Gap. Long story short, the jeans didn’t fit. An unfortunate combination of baby fat and stiff denim left me sulking in my stretchy spandex. Fifteen years later...
...film I’ve seen that doesn’t star Brando or Newman or the Marx Brothers. Though I’ve seen many of the best and worst films of the last two decades, I have little to no knowledge of B-movies or older exploitation films. To be honest, I hadn’t even heard the word “grindhouse” until Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s spoof of the genre—which I also never saw—came out in 2007. So when I found out that...
...Arts. At the conclusion of the master class, Previn, making his first visit to Harvard in 26 years, was presented with the second annual Musician of the Year Award by the Harvard Music Society of Kirkland. The event was open to the public, and as a result, older musicians and fans were in attendance alongside Harvard students. “[Previn is] obviously a wonderful musician, and this [was] a great opportunity to see him in person,” audience member Andrew R. Milewski ’12 said. “Anytime I am able to witness...
...young people really a factor in that surge? There is no denying that the state is getting younger as a whole. In the 1990s, population growth for Floridians aged 19 and under finally surpassed that of Floridians 65 and older - and Floridians born in 1990 came of voting age this year. A recent Miami Herald poll has Obama well ahead of McCain among voters aged 18 to 34, 52% to 42%. "I'm betting young voters will make a big difference this time," says University of Florida political scientist Richard Scher. "The campaign in Florida is playing out as much...
...Badarpur village, with its dusty, pungent streets and tumbledown tenements, is far removed from the confident affluence of Nehru Place. Inside a tiny, cluttered room lit by a single tube-light, nine girls are waiting for their bhaiyya, - 'older brother' in Hindi. An all-girl class is rare; parents who are unable to afford education for their children usually shelve daughters' education first. According to UN figures, 42 million children between the ages of 6 and 14 are not in school in India. The national literacy rate of girls over seven years is 54%, compared to 75% for boys...