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...Harvard-Yale game, Liles played “Little Crimson Riding Hood.” She was eaten by the big bad Yale Bulldog—and then John Harvard saved the day. Blockmate Tzu-Ying Chuang ’10 calls Liles’s performance persona “her alter ego.” “Normally, she’s not the kind of person to go up and talk to people. On the field, she’s like a totally different person, like ‘look at me, look...
...print on packages once read "batteries not included," get ready to see a new disclaimer on toys of the future: "social network included." The increasingly popular Ganz toy "Webkinz," for example, seems at first glance like a simple stuffed animal, but it actually comes complete with its own online persona and a secret-coded portal to the Webkinz World online, where kids care for their virtual pet and earn KinzCash. The latest entrant to this year's most-popular list is a collection of toys called the "Littlest Pet Shop," which also includes a social network online. And even...
...issue of race, so nicely contained and deactivated in the Barack Obama political persona, is still very much alive within the man himself. Today's black identity has been nearly a life-long preoccupation for Obama. By the surface facts of his life--mixed-race background, childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia--it would be easy to assume that he might be indifferent to the whole business of race and identity. Many Americans want to believe that there are people on whom race sits very lightly, people whose very hybridism suggests the possibility of transcending race...
...Barack Obama is not such a person. His books show a man nothing less than driven by a determination to be black, as if blackness were more a specific achievement than a birthright. This drive puts Obama at odds with his own political persona. Much of the excitement that surrounds him comes from the perception that he is only lightly tethered to race. Yet the very arc of his life--from Hawaii to the South Side of Chicago--has been shaped by an often conscious resolve to "belong" irrefutably to the black identity...
Power was briefly moved to tears as she recalled her first meeting with Halberstam, whom she said she had idolized. She added a word about how the author used his persona to drive his mission...