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...films are just one arm of a Tyler Perry empire that includes sold-out road shows and popular DVDS of the plays, the tbs sitcom House of Payne (Allen Payne stars, but Perry wrote the scripts, which do invoke the Almighty), the best-selling book Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life and, on the Internet, The Tyler Perry Show. All of which make him the most successful "unknown" conglomerate in show business. If official culture takes little notice of Perry, that's O.K. with him. He can laugh...
...past few days, the government’s repressive reaction to the popular protests in Lhasa, capital of Tibet, has put China’s human rights record in the spotlight, precisely as the Olympics loom in the horizon. Seeking to control public perception, the Chinese regime has tried to minimize international exposure to the issue. Yet tanks and soldiers will not go unnoticed forever. Tibetans’ demands for autonomy are reasonable, and it is only a matter of time before even the mighty Chinese government has to give...
...midterms and three days before spring break) and the method through which it was delivered signify that the House administrators were either attempting to slip the change in under the radar or simply did not understand the impact that such an announcement might have on rising seniors. Contrary to popular belief, Harvard students generally are more grounded and have better perspective than to waste time or energy whining about tiny bedrooms. But when the promise of good senior housing has been used to justify cramped sophomore and junior rooms, the sudden and casual withdrawal of that promise is positively demoralizing...
...melancholy makes sense when thinking of the perfectly fit, perfectly coiffed, smiling twenty-year-old Britney from the Pepsi commercial as an expression of nostalgia. Every generation experiences its nostalgia through popular culture: It is the shared text of every time, especially since we feel nostalgia for our youths, when we were more cognizant of Saturday morning TV and number one singles than of politics, world events, and “high” culture...
...Pencz is also among the troop of undergraduates who heads down Mass Ave a few days a week for accounting courses at MIT. It’s this idea of using time outside the classroom to build the skills necessary to break into finance that has given birth to popular extracurricular groups like Women in Business, Harvard Pre-Medical Society, and Harvard College Law Society...