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Worst part about Harvard: Nicolas J. Melvoin ’08’s political views and Coach Lisa Miller. Describe yourself in 3 words: Adventurous, inappropriate and VERY popular. In 15 minutes you are: Driving home to watch TV with my parents...
...terms of popular culture, the year 2008 has been very good to the ’hood. With the recent run of popular HBO show “The Wire,” the drama of the American inner-city has earned critical street cred: everyone is talking about it. The recently released “Cop in the Hood” capitalizes on this spike in interest about the worst drug markets of Baltimore, Md., as it brings a sociologist’s eye to the situation that captivated the interest of millions nationwide...
...considered abnormal. “A moderate amount of violent game play is unlikely to hurt you,” Olson said. “You just need to have some balance.” Olson and Kutner found that the Grand Theft Auto series is the most popular game among teenage boys, and students said that it is extremely well-received among the college-aged population as well. “Scintillating social portrait,” said Gregory R. Scruggs ’08. “Everything is either a parody, a satire, or kind...
...Silvio Berlusconi swept back into the Prime Minister's office by roundly defeating Walter Veltroni, who had served the past six years as Rome mayor. When he took up his campaign for national office, Veltroni passed the capital's center-left baton back to Rutelli, who had been a popular mayor through the 1990s. Rutelli, a vice-premier and high-profile culture minister under the recently folded government of Romano Prodi, had been strongly favored to defeat the center-right upstart in the Rome race. His failure to deliver is bound to cause new rifts within Italy's thoroughly dispirited...
...rebels have seen their ranks of almost 20,000 fighters halved in the past five years, according to U.S. military intelligence, while their morale, territorial control and command structure are waning. "Each day the FARC is a less viable force," says Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos. "They have scant popular support." Indeed, while Uribe enjoys an 84% approval rating, tens of thousands of Colombians have staged marches this year condemning the guerrillas...