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...millions and millions of kids in the ghetto who just want to get out," he says. "And then they see their idols like B.I.G. and Tupac who do get out and what do they do? They make videos of loads of women in Jacuzzis and scantily clad and refer to them as ho's, taking the whole ghetto life and glorifying it and showing that this is what you have to aspire to. People that glorify this kind of life-style don't love themselves...
...best deal available elsewhere. He can be especially helpful if you are self-employed or have irregular sources of income and don't fit neatly into traditional categories. Besides, reputable brokers are paid by the lenders at about the same rate as they pay the Internet companies that refer homeowners. How do you find a good broker? Ask your friends or a real estate agent you trust...
...refer not to the buckskin-clad host of The Howdy Doody Show, whose recent death would appear to pose an insurmountable liability to his candidacy, but to Bob Smith, U.S. Senator, who says he is leaning toward a long-shot presidential run. This Bob Smith is not just a Senator. He is a Senator from New Hampshire. And therein lies the key to the excitement his potential candidacy stirs in the reportorial breast...
...writing to correct some misinformation that was printed in your article about freshman housing (News, Nov. 2). In the article, you refer to the "skewed racial distribution" of one of the rooming groups in my part of the Yard (Weld Hall, Matthews Hall, and Canaday Hall), in which you inaccurately state that "four of the six women [in the room] are black...
...where most people consider "he" and "she" to be equal--as people, at least. As a pronoun, however, "she" still hits the grammatical glass ceiling while "he" runs rampant, masquerading as a "gender-unspecific pronoun" that represents both men and women. But the supposition that "he" or "his" may refer to both sexes is ludicrous, since study after study has shown that people of both sexes take this pronoun to refer exclusively to a male. The elusive "gender unspecific pronoun" represents a gap between the rules of grammar and the rules of society that students and academics constantly face...