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...most visible manifestations of “self-segregation,” many blocking groups are predominantly or entirely composed of one race. The Harvard administration does not release racial statistics in blocking, so it is difficult to evaluate the diversity of blocking groups. The phenomenon was easier to notice in the era before the randomization of the housing system, when students had a great degree of choice over the House in which they would be placed. According to a 1994 Crimson op-ed, 80 percent of Black students opted to live in the Quad...
...able to investigate (and litigate) piracy before, and it should not lean against campus administrators to take up the helm of prosecution on this count. While it is regrettable that piracy threatens the livelihood of musicians around the world, the RIAA has adopted the wrong response strategy to this phenomenon. Litigation may persist, but the problem of lost revenues will never be relieved by virtue of such an approach. The renewed focus by the RIAA on college administrators represents a desperate maneuver and an evasion of more practical, broader solutions that embrace Internet sharing and rethink rights management issues. People...
...publishing backwater to being the only book category displaying any growth at all. Last year saw $330 million in sales, up 12% from 2005, according ICV2, a website dedicated to covering the market. Translated Japanese manga, particularly the ones aimed at girls, accounts for much of this growth, a phenomenon that I am pleased to say I wrote about for Time far before any other major media outlet. Now virtually all the major print and online media that cover books have at least some sort of graphic novel coverage, if not dedicated critics...
...difficulty of preserving one’s virginity is precisely what makes abstinence a counter-cultural phenomenon: Not everyone can handle the heat. Popular culture takes the following two truths into account: First, everyone wants to “do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.” Second, not everyone has the resolve or endurance to resist the call of the wild. Popular culture justifies the common experience of all people because it is easier than embracing a practice like abstinence, one that tests the strength of each person’s body and mind...
This whole phenomenon is meaningless prognostication concerning a presidential election that is over 600 days away. Do you know what can happen in that span of time? You could walk the Great Wall of China 2880 times. And all that walking is a heck of a lot healthier for you than robotically touting a presidential candidate in a swing state 20 months before ballots will be cast...