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Looks like America's celebrity-sex-tape phenomenon has arrived in conservative Vietnam. A racy clip starring the 19-year-old female star of Vang Anh's Diaries--a hit show among younger viewers--was posted anonymously on YouTube...
...only Amaker’s commitment but that of the school.”Recruiting success is nothing new to Amaker. He constantly brought in high-ranking high school ballers to Michigan—his 2004 class contained three four-star prospects. But it’s a new phenomenon in Cambridge. In the past six classes, only two players had stars—former captain Jim Goffredo ’07 and junior guard Drew Housman were each two-star prospects.Amaker’s pitch to high schoolers is changing that. In addition to the four committed players...
...JUST A DANCEWhen most people think of tango, the image that comes most readily to mind is that of a couple dancing. Bhabha seeks to start from this traditional conception of tango—tango as dance—and then work outwards to tango as a social phenomenon.“We wanted to start with something that was performance based,” says Bhabha. “And we decided that we wanted to move from music and dance to literature, and then from literature to the humanities, more generally, and social science. Because, you see, tango...
...common phenomenon within the Asian community I know to be confused about the acceptable level of internal Asian to embrace. On one end of the spectrum lie self-isolated cliques of swaggering, slouchy-jeaned teenagers flashing AZN pride signals across high school cafeterias. On the other end are perfectly American girls sporting ponytails and Cokes who confess to never having found an Asian man attractive and admit, embarrassedly, that it is in fact social suicide to have too many Asian friends. The rest of us who remain uncaricatured—well...
...liked added an entirely different dimension to the evening, and to the series. As fans spilled out into the night, taking pictures with their newly signed books, I realized that this was not the end of Harry Potter, it was just the beginning of a new phase of the phenomenon...