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...Twenty minutes later, when the party was getting into full swing, the DJ played the popular hip-hop song “Knuck if you Buck,” according to Jarred M. Watson, a student at Northeastern. The song’s lyrics include “Yeah we knuckin’ and buckin’ and ready to fight...See me, I ain’t nothin’ nice...
Another well-known Harvard academic advising Romney is Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, who teaches the popular Core course, Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics.” Although Mankiw has criticized scholars and politicians’ current emphasis on international competitiveness, he said of Porter’s appointment, “I’m delighted to be working with him and I’m delighted to see that Mitt Romney is reaching out to some of the best minds that academia has to offer...
...Argentina's Senator and First Lady in the capital and other middle-class strongholds. That may explain the relatively low-key victory speech that the new Presidenta delivered at her campaign headquarters in Buenos Aires. The usually fiery "Cristina," as she is universally known in Argentina, said her huge popular victory - 44.9% of the vote in a field of 14 candidates - was "far from putting us in a position of privilege" and that it "puts us instead in a position of greater responsibility and obligations." (Kirchner needed either 45% of the vote or 40% plus a 10 percentage point advantage...
...speech last Monday entitled “X-Underrated—Pornography and Popular Culture,” Pound Visiting Professor of Law Catherine A. MacKinnon stressed to her Barker Center audience of several dozen that pornography cannot exist separately from the mainstream. MacKinnon is a longtime social activist who has committed much of her career to advocating legislation to curb pornography and representing former porn actresses in suing for damages. In her speech Monday, MacKinnon went straight for shock tactics, suggesting that society is wrong to consider porn harmless when it produces images as bad as those that came...
...however politically expedient and however popular with the masses, the decision to pardon Estrada in a nation struggling with endemic corruption strikes many here as deeply cynical. "Of course we'd rather see him in jail," says Alberto Lim, director of the influential Makati Business Council. "They say there's no big fish caught in this country. He was the big fish we caught...