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Just four days after Harvard Medical School professor Jim Yong Kim was selected as the 17th president of Dartmouth College, a popular Dartmouth daily e-mail update sent a message to approximately 1,000 students about Kim’s appointment that was laden with derogatory racial slurs. The “Generic Good Morning Message” (GGMM)—a list-serve administered by six students that is not affiliated with the college—sent an e-mail about Kim that directly attacked his Asian origins. “Yesterday came the announcement that President...
...Wergeland, born into an underprivileged family, had only one dream: conquest. He had an indescribable and all-consuming need to prove that he was someone special and that he could seduce the hearts of a nation. He even managed to win the hearts of the people with a mega-popular television show. Yet his weakness for power and narcissistic self-obsession twisted his personage beyond any other explanation but one: a demon.“The Conqueror,” Jan Kjaerstad’s second book in a trilogy that also includes “The Seducer?...
...with a few selections from Claude Debussy’s Preludes. It was these simple tone poems, not the virtuosic heavyweights that usually dominate any performer’s repertoire, which revealed the musical genius behind Lang’s commercial success. His interpretation of Debussy’s popular melody “The Girl with the Flaxen Hair” was ethereal but never flighty, thanks to his delicate yet pointed approach to the keyboard. Closing his eyes for most of the preludes, Lang occasionally tore himself from his musical trance to look towards the audience...
...variables in the culture. Classical Indian dance is one of the oldest forms of dance that has remained relatively true to its beginnings. Bhangra is a more modernized dance style that originates from the state of Punjab in Northern India. Over time the moves and music have inherited American popular music and culture, such as hip-hop. We also have fusion and modern pieces that combine different forms of dance with South Asian dance...and different regional dances to show the diversity of style across the subcontinent. A couple examples of these types of dances are Koli and Malayalee...
...hope I’m not the only fan for whom this seems so right. The NLL draws its fan base of lacrosse enthusiasts and team members not with media hype, but for a simple reason—the league offers a chance to stay connected to an increasingly popular high school and collegiate sport (Note: Blazers games are probably your best chance to see former laxer Bill Belichick in person. He busts out his “nice” grey baggy sweaters on Saturday nights...