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...Hollywood's liberal views on gays and its unslakable fascination with the Holocaust. And the "was": Slumdog. With its skimpy budget ($14 million) and mongrel pedigree, it might seem like the odd dog out; but the movie is really classic Hollywood - not just in its inspirational story of a poor kid pursuing an impossible dream, but in its goal of keeping a mass audience entertained...
...Citizenship and service, however, are not coextensive. Service is an activity fraught with asymmetrical power relationships. As Harvard students, we can go paint community centers and tutor poor students and lobby for worker’s rights because we have the luxury of time and stability and because we are prodded along by the tickling guilt of our own comfort. This is not to undercut the work of the many students who participate in service, almost all with genuinely good motivations. Rather, it is to point out that we serve because we can, and we can because...
...little things that had gone against it in its loss at Princeton the previous night as well as its 66-60 loss at home to the Quakers earlier this month to win by the same score.With Penn, hampered by a mix of failing to get loose balls and poor free throw shooting in those losses, the tables were turned on Saturday.Harvard shot just 7-of-16 from the foul line in the earlier fixture, but this time, Penn was just 14-of-25. While the Crimson got unlucky bounces on balls in those other losses, this time, after senior guard...
...With the number of poor growing and reports of some going hungry, communist officials in Hanoi recently decided to hand out $12 to millions of impoverished Vietnamese on the eve of the nation's most important celebration, Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. Tet is Vietnam's equivalent of Christmas; it's a holiday of family gatherings and lavish spending on gifts. But this year, a time for giving turned out to be a time for taking. It appears that many of the cash handouts were pocketed by corrupt local officials.(See pictures from the 1979 border war between Vietnam...
...some villagers say more than 90% of the funds were siphoned off by petty bureaucrats. In the province of Quang Ngai, dozens say they were forced to donate to a so-called rural traffic fund. Other destitute villagers reported they had to contribute to a fund for the poor. Investigations of these and scores of similar cases have begun across the country...