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...most people, the Boston Marathon is a race hosted annually by the City of Boston on Patriots?? Day in April. But to a select band of individuals from across the country, “the” Boston Marathon happens in February, and requires 24 hours, not 26 miles, of endurance. Every year since 1976, a few hundred fans have spent one full day enjoying the best and worst of the last century’s science fiction cinema. The festival’s location has changed since the event first began—moving from...
...number of Indians, led by prominent Bollywood figures, have condemned the movie for depicting India as a poor, dirty, lawless, and backward nation. Amitabh Bachchan, perhaps Bollywood’s most successful living actor, said that the movie “causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots?? because of its unwarranted portrayal of India as a “Third World dirty underbelly developing nation...
...Bachchan, perhaps a more constructive activity than trying to discredit Slumdog is to make a movie like it himself. As it stands, those who think that “pain and disgust” are the appropriate reactions for India’s “nationalists and patriots?? are simply abrogating their responsibilities, then complaining when others pick them...
...about our faults. Most annoying of all is the Bostonian tendency to play the underdog. “Not even Red Sox fans, but all Boston fans want to act like they’re the underdog,” Kumar said. Sixteen Celtics championships in the NBA, the Patriots?? ongoing semi-dynasty in the NFL (thank you Eli), and... well, not the Bruins, but the point stands.But I’m not bitter, just bruised. It’s one thing to subject us to history and flood the streets with revelers, or have themed dinners...
...small group of students calling themselves the “Students at Harvard Undermining Terrorism-United Patriots?? (SHUT-UP) enacted a farcical pro-war demonstration in front of the John Harvard Statue at noon yesterday. Members of the Harvard Anti-War Coalition (HAWC) marched through Harvard Yard and the surrounding area with signs reading “Five more years (or however long it takes...)!” and chanted “1, 2, 3, 4, we support preemptive war!” The march was one of several events the group has organized as the fifth...