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...packed audience took a critical look at Disney films last night in Boylston Hall, examining the popular childhood movies and their portrayals of race, gender, and class. The event, “Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood and Corporate Power,” involved a screening of the documentary of that same name followed by a discussion led by Michael Baran, who teaches Expos 20: “Race in the Americas.” The event was the brainchild of Jessica M. Ch’ng ’12, who saw the documentary in Baran?...
...history is as rich as her music; the daughter of the famed tango singer Horacio Molina, she spent several years in Paris after her family fled the Argentine military coup of 1976. Upon her return to South America, she began a career in television, starring in two popular Argentine series and releasing her first album, “Rara” (or “Strange”) before leaving for Los Angeles to exclusively pursue music. “The day I realized I was going to die without doing [music], I started working hard to be able...
...coordinators and supporters don’t adopt a blind charity mentality but converse to find ways to use the equipment best on the terms of recipients, there should be no reason to stop for fear of cultural debasement. So long as OLPC shies away from the popular “Save the Third World from All Its Self-Imposed Problems” rhetoric, tensions can dissipate enough for the laptops to do what they’re supposed...
...suggests that the use of more sexual ambiguous models might be a more effective way of inciting constructive conversation. “It’s a particular, commodified image of gayness,” she says. “There is something about drag queens in the popular imagination that runs the risk of becoming a sort of comedic thing to parody femininity and it’s not really about serious difference.” Timothy McCarthy ’93, a lecturer in the History and Literature department, echoes this sentiment and warns that organizers will have...
...situation, to be widely considered a nation's most popular politician yet simultaneously barred from ever holding public office again. But that's the situation facing Pakistani opposition leader and long-time political mainstay Nawaz Sharif after a Feb. 25 decision by Pakistan's Supreme Court. The ruling declared both Sharif and his brother, Shahbaz, ineligible to hold office, ostensibly because of Sharif's criminal convictions after he was tossed from office in a 1999 coup by Gen. Pervez Musharraf...