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...contrite Summers, looking solemn after days of criticism, met privately with the Faculty Standing Committee on Women last night and issued them an outright apology in a rare step for Harvard’s high-profile president...
Such a decision would enable states to pass new laws outlawing abortion (which is not exactly unlikely since state legislatures have enacted 380 measures restricting abortion since 1995 alone, even banning it outright in Louisiana and Utah) or enforce the Comstock laws still on the books in many states. This has repercussions for all kinds of intimate decisions, including contraception, and (of particular note to college students) all sex outside marriage...
...public outcry have been as vocal and immediate, and as monolithically damning, if Harry had worn a Soviet instead of Nazi uniform? No, it most certainly would not have been. In our society communist paraphernalia is considered to be humorous or ironic; it is almost never viewed with the outright revulsion we reserve for the Nazis...
...subcultures, however, hip-hop was eventually faced with incorporation by the mainstream. Recognizing the potential profit, corporate America and hip-hop performers formed a relationship that would result in the near-total commodification of hip-hop. Some performers, like the Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff, accepted this incorporation outright; others, like Public Enemy and the gangsta rap collective NWA (or Niggaz Wit Attitude), saw hip-hop’s expansion as an opportunity to vent their frustrations with the social order in America...
...crime. The socially conscious lament began to disappear with Dr. Dre’s 1992 magnum opus, The Chronic. The music that Chuck D had called the “CNN of the hood” was replaced by a downwardly spiraling culture defined largely by fraudulent performance and outright glorification of ghetto nihilism in exchange for financial success...