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...seeing things—they were kind of mundane and most people wanted to get out.” And after establishing his street cred, Jenkins felt free to also take on race-relations. And why not? He is Third Eye Blind... “You are black and Polish and Portuguese. You are a mutt,” he says, pointing and gesticulating emphatically. “We are mutts. Race is just falling away so quickly and yet in this country, it’s still our unfinished business...The other side is that it?...
...Hakluyt had imagined that the colonies "would yield unto us all the commodities of Europe, Africa and Asia." Perhaps the settlers would discover gold. All they found were a few semiprecious stones--garnets, amethysts, quartz crystals. Perhaps they could manufacture glass. One resupply ship brought eight German and Polish craftsmen. Most of them ran off to live with the Indians...
...served for another 15 minutes, he swipes his card at the entrance of Lowell House dining hall and walks into the feeding area, clad in his unmistakable red-and-black plaid hoodie.The UC vice president has been awake since 6:00 a.m. already, trying to polish off a bit of reading for one of the three philosophy classes that round out his course load this semester. But despite having attended a Delta Gamma sorority formal in Boston the previous night, he doesn’t appear to be affected by a lack of sleep. The thrust of this morning?...
...Christian I.C. Strong ’09, “Fabulation” boasted an eight-member cast who adeptly handled the play’s 27 roles. The production, which ran April 12-14 in the Loeb Experimental Theater, had a few opening-night chips in its polish, but more than compensated with a fantastic script (by Lynn Notage) and great acting...
...Africa's indigenous cultures and traditions," Godwin observes, "but not long enough to leave behind a durable replacement." Godwin's own story lends another layer of historical irony. In 2001 he learned that his father was not, as he had always believed, an English immigrant. He was a Polish Jew who had fled the Holocaust. "Being a white here," Godwin's father observes, dismayed at the rising chaos, "is starting to feel a bit like being a Jew in Poland...