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...community.I was a young woman when I went to UND in 1997. I tried my best to fit in to the whole college scene, living in the dorm, going to dances, and attending a football game for the first time.At the game, I witnessed several of my white peers painted exorbitantly, with fake feathers adorning their bodies. Our fans were chanting and doing the tomahawk chop, while our opponent’s fans were chanting slogans like, “Pillage the village, rape the women!”It is inevitable that, with a team name like...
...greater than the GDP of over 100 countries, and its roster of prize-winning academics—here presumably to teach the thinkers and leaders of tomorrow—is unparalleled. In fact, despite the constant complaints about how social life at Harvard is only mildly preferable to watching paint dry, I would venture to say that most of us here probably chose Harvard because we wanted to learn, or at least because we expected that going to such a prestigious institution (and learning something along the way) would give us a leg up in the cutthroat world...
...critic Francine Prose tries to do in “Caravaggio.” In this work, she often refers to the words of Caravaggio’s 16th century biographers (and more recent ones, too), and integrates all opinions about his work and his life, in order to paint her own admiring and sometimes contagiously enthusiastic portrait of a brilliant, yet quite shady, character...
...piece of work), a graying husband, a four-year period of needles and frozen sperm, a lower chance you’ll be able to chase your grandchildren around the yard, and much lower chance you’ll be alive to attend their graduations. Do I see the paint peeling on this white picket fence dream...
...lived where my family’s lived for generations. The paint on the wood siding is chipped, and there are old, rusting cars in the backyard, right next to the metal-roofed cinder block shed. No one noticed. So what if the power company cuts off the lights from time to time? The bill will get paid tomorrow, so you just go to bed at sundown. No big deal—or so I thought...