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...sulky and defensive when they didn’t.It was earth-shattering, to learn that outside my safe, championship-filled Massachusetts bubble my people could be viewed in such a light. But as difficult as it was to learn that not everybody thought like me, soon something even scarier happened: I learned that some of the people who didn’t think like me might be right—at least about some things. It’s true: we Boston fans are a little smug about our seemingly interminable parade of victories. Many Red Sox fans really...
...racism makes for a much scarier bogeyman. In his recent speech on race in in Philadelphia, Obama warned, “…many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow...
...cell phones and security cameras. Those who walked out of “Cloverfield” with a migraine have little to worry about here; the “shaky cam” elements are much more subdued. Romero also uses a musical score to help sell the scarier moments. All good zombie films have an intriguing subtext, revealing more about human nature than the machinations of the various ghouls on display. In that respect “Diary” simply shines. Due to the frequent bouts of narration that sometimes border on the overdramatic, it is almost impossible...
...letdown takes place come tomorrow night in its contest against a very hot Columbia (7-13, 4-2 Ivy) squad. The Lions potential to play tough at home, and surprise top teams, was on display in a 76-59 thrashing of Cornell on January 26. What’s scarier is that Colombia has been playing its best recently...
...fully aware of the hazards of smoking, and it's a weakness that the tobacco industry is quick to exploit, Bettcher said. A recent Chinese study found that "only 25% of the Chinese population knew tobacco was bad for their health," he explained. Warnings should be bolder and scarier, said Bloomberg. Other countries put skull and crossbones symbols or photographs of blackened lungs on their cigarette packs, he said, and the U.S should follow suit: "The U.S. government isn't doing enough...